''Le nozze d'Ercole e d'Ebe'' (The Marriage of

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and Hebe) is an opera in two acts composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck to an Italian libretto by an unknown author. Sometimes referred to as a '' festa teatrale'' or ''

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'', it was first performed in

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near Dresden on 29 June 1747 to celebrate the double wedding of the Bavarian elector and the Saxon crown prince to each other's sisters.Greene, David Mason (1985)
''Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers''
p. 317. Reproducing Piano Roll FoundationGluck-Gesamtausgabe

Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität

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