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| Christoph Willibald Gluck
(1747 - 1887)
| Timeline |
| 1714 |
Born 2 July in Erasbach, Germany |
| 1732 |
Attends Prague University |
| 1735 |
Travels to Vienna and then to Italy as a musician, under the patronage of Prince Lobkowitz |
| 1741 |
First opera, Artaserse, successfully staged in Milan |
| 1750 |
Marries Maria Anna Bergin, daughter of a wealthy Viennese merchant. The marriage secured his favourable position in the Viennese imperial court |
| 1754 |
The Austrian Empress Maria Theresa appoints him Kapellmeister to the court theatre in Vienna |
| 1767 |
Composes opera Alceste, with its historic preface spelling out his ideas about operatic reform |
| 1773 |
Moves to Paris, with commissions to write a series of operas |
| 1787 |
Dies in Vienna, 15 November at age 73 |
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