In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...

In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision. By Zachary Woolfe Reporting from ...

Pianist Bob Gluck is a pianist and writer whose repertoire spans jazz, live electronic music, and avant-garde concert music. Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz) wrote: “As a composer and player, Gluck ...

A particular fascination of mine is the ancient Catholic practice of preserving saints' bones in stunningly intricate boxes of metallic finery and lush upholsteries. I have seen hundreds of stinky ...

Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's fifth operatic masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride - based on Euripides' play and first performed in Paris in 1779. Show more Lucie Skeaping looks at the music ...

Three hundred years since his birth, Gluck is still remembered for a mere handful of arias, yet he was the most powerful operatic reformer of his time. It is amazing to find in Daniel Behle's fine ...

First performed in Naples in 1752, La Clemenza di Tito is often regarded as the most successful of the 20-odd operas that Gluck composed before the watershed of Orfeo ed Euridice in 1762. It sets the ...

Trending on Billboard if ( !window.pmc.harmony?.isEventAdScheduledTime() ) { pmcCnx.cmd.push(function() { pmcCnx({ settings: { plugins… By Phil Gallo Will Gluck, a ...