|
Glueck (other)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera. Gluck may also refer to: * Gluck (surname) * 7624 Gluck, a main-belt asteroid * Gluck (card game) * Gluck (crater), a crater on Mercury * Gluck (painter) (born Hannah Gluckstein; 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a British painter, who rejected any forename or honorific (such as "Miss" or "Mr"), also using the names Peter and Hig. Gluck joined the Lamorna artists' colony near Penzan ... (1895–1978), British painter (birth name Hannah Gluckstein) See also Glück (surname). {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period (music), classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time, he gained prominence at the House of Habsburg, Habsburg court in Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' and ''Alceste (Gluck), Alceste'', he broke the stranglehold that Metastasio, Metastasian ''opera seria'' had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera. The strong influence of French opera encouraged Gluck to move to Paris in November 1773. Fusing the traditions of Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gluck (surname)
Gluck is a surname of German or Yiddish origin. The root word means luck in either language. It is a last name found among Ashkenazi Jews and those of German ancestry. However, there is evidence that the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck's surname derives from the Czech word ''kluk'' (boy).Brown & Rushton 2001"Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von. 1. Ancestry, early life and training."at Grove Music Online. Notable people with the surname include: * Abbe Gluck, American legal academic * Alma Gluck (Reba Feinsohn) (1884–1938), Romanian-American soprano * Arie Gluck (1930–2016), Israeli runner and coach * Barbara Gluck (born 1938), American photographer * Benjamin Gluck (born 1979), American screenwriter, animator and director * Carol Gluck (born 1941), American historian of modern Japan * Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), one of the most important opera composers of the Classical music era * Earle J. Gluck (1900–1972), American radio pioneer * Edgar Gluck (born 1936 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
7624 Gluck
76 or Seventy-Six may refer to: Common uses * 76 (number) * one of the years 76 BC, AD 76, 1976, 2076 Places * Seventy Six, Kentucky * Seventy-Six, Missouri * Seventy-Six Township, Iowa (other), several places Arts, entertainment, and media * Seventy-Six (novel), ''Seventy-Six'' (novel), an 1823 American novel by John Neal * 76 (album), ''76'' (album), the debut album of Dutch trance producer and DJ Armin van Buuren * '76 (comics), ''76'' (comics), a 2007 comic book limited series by Image Comics * '76 (film), ''76'' (film), a 2016 film starring Ramsey Nouah and Rita Dominic Brands and enterprises * 76 (gas station), gas station chain in the United States Sports * Philadelphia 76ers, NBA team located in Philadelphia Others * 76 Freia, a main-belt asteroid See also * * List of highways numbered 76 {{Numberdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
