Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer
Christoph Willibald Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. Wikipedia
Born: July 2, 1714, Erasbach, Berching, Germany
Died: November 15, 1787 (age 73 years), Vienna, Austria
Parents: Alexander Johannes Gluck and Maria Walburga Gluck
Spouse: Maria Anna Bergin (m. 1750–1787)
Place of Burial: Evangelical Cemetery Matzleinsdorf
Works written: The collected correspondence and papers of Christoph Willibald Gluck
Compositions