Gluck

Contents

• Contents: Introduction. Part I Before Orfeo: Coming of age in Bohemia: the musical apprenticeships of Benda and Gluck, Daniel Heartz
• The wandering minstrel: an 18th-century fiction?, Patricia Howard
• The 'sweet song' in Demofoonte: a Gluck borrowing from Handel, John H. Roberts
• Gluck nella 'Gazetta di Milano': 1742-1745, Klaus Hortschansky
• The Sachsen-Hildburghausen Kapelle and the symphonies of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Jen-yen Chen. Part II Gluck in Vienna: From Garrick to Gluck: the reform of theatre and opera in the mid-18th century, Daniel Heartz
• The libertine reformed: 'Don Juan' by Gluck and Angiolini, Charles C. Russell
• Some questions on the original version of Gluck and Angiolini's Don Juan, Sibylle Dahms
• Gluck's Rencontre Imprevue and its revisions, Bruce Alan Brown
• Gluck and the 'festa teatrale', Raymond Monelle
• Un manifeste en musique, Michel Noiray
• An island entire of itself: Gluck's Telemaco, Max Loppert
• Gluck's Alceste in Bologna: production and performance at the Teatro Comunale, 1778, Margaret R. Butler. Part III Gluck in Paris: From Vienna to Paris: Gluck and the French opera, Julian Rushton
• Gluck and Lully, Herbert Schneider
• Musical setting and scenic movement: chorus and choeur danse in 18th-century Parisian Opera, Thomas Betzwieser
• Royal Agamemnon: the two versions of Gluck's Iphigenie en Aulide, Julian Rushton
• Der Deus ex machina in Gluck's Iphigenie in Aulis, Wilhelm Weismann
• A Bach borrowing by Gluck: another frontier, George J. Buelow
• Expression and revision in Gluck's Orfeo and Alceste, F.W. Sternfeld. Part IV Reception and Legacy: Some thoughts on Gluck and the reform of the opera, H.C. Robbins Landon
• Berlioz and Gluck, Joel-Marie Fauquet
• Iphigenie a Paris: positioning Gluck historically in early 20th-century France, William Gibbons
• Who killed Gluck?, Simon Goldhill. Name index.