An edition of Gluck (1995)

Gluck

An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents

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An edition of Gluck (1995)

Gluck

An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents

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Celebrated today for his historical significance as the one composer who did most to effect the transition between baroque and classical opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was, in his lifetime, both controversial and colourful. The documents portray a man of enormous physical energy, relish for good food and good company, and passion for his art.

Patricia Howard draws on a variety of contemporary sources in an attempt to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of the eighteenth century.

The basis of the book is the body of letters to and from Gluck. Also included are a wealth of factual documents and informal anecdotes, not easily accessible in the original German, French, or Italian, and almost none of which has ever been translated. The material has been arranged with the aim of providing readers with a lively, continuous narrative of Gluck's life, while at the same time indicating the principal locations of the published and unpublished sources.

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Gluck
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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Gluck
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Gluck
2017, Taylor & Francis Group
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Gluck
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
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Gluck: an eighteenth-century portrait in letters and documents
1995, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Gluck
Gluck: An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents
October 17, 1995, Oxford University Press, USA, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
in English
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Library of Congress
ML410.G5H668 1995, ML410.G5 H668 1995

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7397135M
Internet Archive
gluckeighteenthc0000howa
ISBN 10
0198163851
ISBN 13
9780198163855
LCCN
95017332
OCLC/WorldCat
32509191
Goodreads
3469032

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