Gluck: An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents

by Patricia Howard

Book Overview

This book brings together a variety of eighteenth century sources in an attempt to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of that century. Celebrated today for his historical significance, as the one composer who did most to effect the transition between baroque and classical opera, Gluck in his lifetime was both a controversial figure and a colourful one: the sources portray a man of enormous energy, relish for good food and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198163851
• ISBN13: 9780198163855
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.