An Essay About Williband Gluck

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Christoph Willibald Gluck was born July 2, 1714 in Berching, Germany. He was born to Maria Walburga, and Alexander Johannes Gluck. His father was a forester, which was a law enforcer back in the medieval era. He also was a huntsman. Christoph Gluck’s nationality was Bohemian and German. Growing up Christoph became interested in music and how it was made. Christoph Gluck attended school at Karmnitz and Albersodoff. This is where he began to fall in love with music. He also fell in love with music when singing in a church choir. As an adult, he attended the University of Prague in 1731, but failed to receive a degree in logic and mathematics. Christoph began to start his music career. He moved to Milan where he began to create symphonies and sacred music. The Tearro Regio Ducal was the first opera house Christoph visited. He has offered the opportunity to perform some of his pieces at the Milanese Carnival in 1741.
Since he was such an amazing composer he was offered to play at the next 4 Milanese Carnivals. Years went by and Christoph was offered by Pletro Mingotti offered Christoph to compose his opera for the Dresden play. This event was for royal weddings. His success and fame began to be noticed by the Viennese court. He was chosen to compose the Metatasios Sermiramide Riconsosciuta. The piece was for Maria Theresa’s birthday celebration. In 1750 he was asked to perform at the Prague Carnival. He slowly began to become recognized as an opera composer and produced 8 operas.
After people started to notice who Christoph Gluck was, people started to criticize some of his works. Since Christoph was German, they preferred an Italian composer. That didn’t stop Christoph from playing or composing or making more compositions. in 17...

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... their music well until it started to go faster and the music began to get a lot deeper. In this song you could see how Christoph made it seem like the song was a very soft and quiet song. Then he started to obtain energy and emotion. The woman also gives the song passion and emotion. Also the woman in the background is bringing out the instruments and the tones to the song. In some of his songs he uses the violin a lot to express his music and what his song means.
I personally think the violin is a good instrument to use because it helps you understand what tone the song is. Christoph Gluck was also the type of composer to express tone and aggressiveness in some of his songs. Overall Christoph Gluck was a wonderful composer. His compositions were very creative and nice. I would say Christoph Gluck would fall in the most memorable and amazing composer of all time.

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