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Composer of the Week Christoph Willibald Gluck Episodes

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  1. Episode 5

    5/5 Gluck's operatic career included his sequel to Iphigenie en Aulide and a French farce.

  2. Episode 4

    4/5 Gluck's decided in 1774 to apply his radical aesthetics to the traditions of French opera.

  3. Episode 3

    3/5 Gluck's manifesto for opera was to 'restrict music to its true function of serving poetry'

  4. Episode 2

    2/5 Donald Macleod traces the young Gluck's journeys across Europe before he settled in Vienna

  5. Episode 1

    1/5 Gluck stood aloof from any tradition, declaring he wrote 'music belonging to all nations'.