She induces Gluck to visit Paris.

Metastasio taught her Italian; Gluck, whose recently published opera of "Orfeo" had, established for him a reputation as one of the greatest musicians of the age, gave her lessons on the harpsichord.

GLUCK THE DOMESTIC, ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR, AND THE AMIABLE PICCINNI XII.

BILLINGTON GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU NICOLA PICCINNI JEAN BAPTISTE DE LULLY WOLFGANG MOZART MOZART, AT VIENNA, PLAYING HIS OPERA "DON JUAN" FOR THE FIRST TIME

But again there stalks forth, to confound all our theories, the superb figure of Gluck, who fell in love but once, and then for all time, with Maria Anna Pergin, who loved him, and whose mother approved of him, but whose purse-proud father despised him for a musician.

Gluck flew back from Italy to Vienna to his betrothed, "with whom to his death he dwelt in happiest wedlock."

He could, when Gluck died, strive to organise a memorial festival in his honour, and when his other rival, Sacchini, was taken from the arena by death, he could deliver the funeral eulogy.

There have been the home-keeping breeders of children, and contentment, such as Willaert, Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina, the Bachs, Gluck, Piccinni, Weber, Mendelssohn, and Schumann; and Bizet, whose wife said after his death, that there was not a moment of their six years' honeymoon she could regret or would not re-live.

Christoph Willibald von Gluck, sein Leben und seine Werke.

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, dessen Leben und tonkünstlerisches Wirken.

We gaze in hope, adoration, and rapture on the blue expanse, varied by delicate vapours, sailing calmly, wondrously through it; and then occur to our memories spontaneously, the exquisite lines translated from a morceau, by Gluck, (a German poet;) and our hearts respond as each of us sighs: "There's peace and welcome in yon sea Of endless blue tranquillity.

The success of Consuelo was assured when she appeared for the first time in Gluck's "Ipermnestra."

TuneIn Gluck, where it has a pyramidal form.

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In 1741 Richard Pockrich invented the Musical Glasses, for which Gluck wrote some pieces: it was afterwards improved by Benjamin Franklin.

Madame Sontag, when she wished to interpret Gluck's music, chose Delsarte for her teacher.

Contrary to this opinion, the appoggiatura was for a long time used in France as a short and rapid passing note; it thus gave the music a vivacious character, wholly discordant with the style of serious compositions; the music of Gluck was particularly unsuited to it.

He saw the good man take up a Gluck score as one handles a sacred book; he surprised him pressing it to his heart, or to his head, as if to win a blessing from the great soul which poured itself forth in these immortal compositions.

Everyone knows that it was Delsarte who drew Gluck from the oblivion in which he had languished since the beginning of the century.

Delsarte is the equivalent of Gluck, and, if we may say so, the incarnation of his thought.

," he sang,an old air in one of Gluck's operas that our Italian musicians say was composed by Alessandro Stradella, the poor murdered singer.

" He embraced the smiling donor, and examined his new possession on all sides; finally he threw open the door and jumped in, exclaiming: "I feel as rich and happy as Ritter Gluck.