, Though this opera composer died in Vienna in 1787, he lived throughout Europe, including long-term stays in Milan and Paris.
, Though this opera composer died in Vienna in 1787, he lived throughout Europe, including long-term stays in Milan and Paris. A major break came for him when he was commissioned to compose music for the name day celebrations held for King Charles III in Naples; eleven years before that, he had composed his first opera, Artaserse, about which one story was told of a Milan crowd demanding that an aria be added in the style of their home city before they would listen. One of his music pupils was Marie Antoinette, so perhaps not surprisingly he headed to France in the early 1770's. Among his first compositions there was Iphigenie en Aulide. As a reformer of operatic practices, among his major concerns was making characters more realistic and less stereotyped, and fusing music with dramatic content so singing would not merely embellish the singers and highlight their talents. FTP, name this German opera composer whose most famous work is perhaps Orpheus and Eurydice.
, Though this opera composer died in Vienna in 1787, he lived throughout Europe, including long-term stays in Milan and Paris.
Christoph Willibald {Gluck}