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Christoph Willibald Gluck
(1714–1787) was a composer of Italian and French
opera
in the early
classical period
. Rising to prominence at the
Habsburg
court in Vienna, he challenged the dominant
Metastasian
opera seria
by introducing more drama and cutting the
da capo aria
with a series of works in the 1760s, among them
Orfeo ed Euridice
and
Alceste
. After moving to Paris in 1773, he fused the Italian and French traditions in eight operas. Of these,
Iphigénie en Tauride
is generally acknowledged as his finest work.
Painting:
Joseph Siffred Duplessis
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