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	GLUCK - Online Information article about GLUCK
		Gluck's next work was I phigenie en Tauride, the success of which finally disposed of Piccinni, who produced a work on the same subject at the same time and who is said to have acknowledged Gluck's superiority.
		Moreover Gluck's genius was of too high an order for him to be less successful in portraying a sufficiently intense happiness than in portraying grief.
		Gluck had no opportunities in this work for any higher qualities, musical or dramatic, than prettiness; and with him beauty, without visible emotion, was indeed skin-deep.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GEO_GNU/GLUCK.html (4851 words)

	Learn more about Christoph Willibald Gluck in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gluck was born in Erasbach to a forester in the service of a nobleman.
		Gluck's idea was to make the drama of the work more important than the star singers who performed it, and to do away with recitative which broke up the action.
		Christoph Willibald Gluck is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ch/christoph_willibald_gluck.html (531 words)

	Armide (Gluck) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
		Gluck struck a nerve in French sensitivities, and whereas Armide was not one of his more popular works, it remained a critical touchstone for aesthetic and cultural concerns of French opera.
		Armide is part of the standard operatic repertoire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armide_(Gluck) (215 words)

	- Great Books - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gluck had for the first time deserted Metastasio for Raniero Calzabigi, who, as Vernon Lee suggests, was in all probability the immediate cause of the formation of Gluck's new ideas, as he was a hot-headed dramatic theorist with a violent dislike for Metastasio, who had hitherto dominated the whole sphere of operatic libretto.
		Gluck was by far the better musician, but his deficiencies in musical technique were of a kind which contemporaries could perceive as easily as they could perceive Piccinni's.
		Gluck's indisputable dramatic power might be plausibly dismissed as irrelevant by upholders of music for music's sake, even if Piccinni himself had not chosen, as he did, to assimilate every feature in Gluck's style that he could understand.
	www.malaspina.com /site/person_569.asp (3106 words)

	Salon Music Review \| Sharps & Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gluck's opera is set in Damascus, during the Crusades, and it opens with Armide's attendants celebrating her successful bewitching and imprisoning of an entire Christian army.
		Armide uses her powers to lure and beguile Renaud, but upon raising her dagger, she realizes she has fallen in love and cannot kill him.
		Gluck's triumph affirms that it's not the age of music that counts most, but its mastery and truthfulness.
	archive.salon.com /ent/music/review/2000/01/05/armide/print.html (1018 words)

	Armide - Gluck
		Armide now approaches to slay her sleeping enemy with a dagger, but, in the act of striking him, she is overcome with love for him, and bids the apparitions transport her and her hero to some "farthest desert, where she may hide her weakness and her shame."
		Armide, alone, is deploring the conquest of her heart by Renaud.
		Armide, reluctant to yield, summons Hate, who is ready to do her bidding and expel love from her bosom.
	www.musicwithease.com /armide.html (790 words)

	GLUCK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gluck's early interest in music was not approved of by his father and at the age of 13 or 14 he ran away to Prague where he earned his living by singing.
		Gluck also met Handel during this time and considered him to be one of the greatest of all composers.
		Gluck never could be persuaded to return to Paris but through a ruse of his, his gifted pupil Salieri made his debut there.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/2549/Gluck.html (1442 words)

	UNT Libraries: Music Library, Armide Plot Summary
		Armide is unusual among Lully and Quinault's tragédies lyriques in that it concentrates on the psychological development of a single character.
		Armide leaves the Pleasures and a troop of Fortunate Lovers to amuse Renaud in an extended divertissement while she retires to the Underworld to consider her situation.
		Armide returns in time to confront Renaud as he leaves her, imploring him to take her with him as a captive if he will not remain as her lover.
	www.unt.edu /lully/Armide/Armiplot.html (827 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787)
		Gluck had for the first time deserted Metastasio for Raniero Calzabigi, who, as Vernon Lee suggests, was in all probability the immediate cause of the formation of Gluck's new ideas, as he was a hot-headed dramatic theorist with a violent dislike for Metastasio, who had hitherto dominated the whole sphere of operatic libretto.
		Amongst the opponents of Gluck were not only the admirers of Italian vocalization and sweetness, but also the adherents of the earlier French school, who refused to see in the new composer the legitimate successor of Lulli and Rameau.
		Gluck's indisputable dramatic power might be plausibly dismissed as irrelevant by upholders of music for music's sake, even if Piccinni himself had not chosen, as he did, to assimilate every feature in Gluck's style that he could understand.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=922 (3365 words)

	Watches-Gluck - Armide / Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, Podles, Beuron, Polegato, KozenÃ¡, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Armide is a story of the power of love and of the war between love and hate.
		Gluck was known for attempting to integrate text and music into an artistic whole rather than for indulging in lengthy musical flourishes for their own sake.
		Armide with its arias that slip frictionlessly into recetatives, duets, and trios is harder to grasp.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_gluck__armide__delun-B000026BO7.htm (1837 words)

	Amazon.com: Gluck - Armide / Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, Podles, Beuron, Polegato, Kozená, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is MY second Gluck's opera (after the French "Orphee et Euridice") and this set was a revelation to me. Minkowski, whose conducting was a major snag in his recording of Handel's "Ariodante", here appears to me as a real star of this magical show.
		Having long admired Gluck, the one opera that was missing from my collection was "Armide," but I was not certain if this recording would bring out the dramatic side of his music.
		Armide with its arias that slip frictionlessly into recetatives, duets, and trios is harder to grasp.
	www.amazon.com /Gluck-Delunsch-Polegato-Musiciens-Minkowski/dp/B000026BO7 (1615 words)

	Berlioz and Gluck: includes full scores of Gluck which may be viewed and played online
		Gluck himself was partly to blame: in Berlioz’s view he had betrayed his own genius through frequently careless orchestral writing (for example he often did not bother to write out the viola parts properly, and allowed them to double the bass part even if this resulted in harmonic nonsense).
		In the Soirées de l’orchestre, Gluck’s music forms the climax of the sequence of evenings: in the 22nd Soirée, Iphigénie en Tauride is performed by the musicians with religious respect, and in the 23rd they are still under the impact of the great work.
		In the 25th and final evening which introduces Euphonia, the imaginary city devoted solely to music, Gluck is the object of a cult: a special festival is celebrated in his honour, and it is an exceptional distinction for even the greatest singers to be allowed to perform in the title roles.
	www.hberlioz.com /Predecessors/gluck.htm (3114 words)

	Opera News : GLUCK: Armide.(Review) @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		GLUCK: Armide [] Delunsch, Podles, Masset, Heaston; Workman, Naouri; Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski.
		It was an extraordinarily daring decision for Gluck to compose his Armide using the nearly hundred-year-old libretto of Philippe Quinault, originally written for Jean-Baptiste Lully.
		The still-venerated Lully was rightly regarded as the father of French opera, and Armide, composed in 1686, was his masterpiece.
	static.highbeam.com /o/operanews/july011999/gluckarmidereview (178 words)

	Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787 -- Criticism and interpretation.
		Calchas, d'un trait mortel blessbe Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
		Gluck, C.W. Iphigbenie en Aulide, 1967: summary (Calchas, d'un trait mortel blessbe) Heading: Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcgluck1.htm (3617 words)

	Gramophone - Gramofile - The world's best classical music magazine
		Its plot is thinnish, concerned only with the love of the pagan sorceress Armide, princess of Damascus, for the Christian knight and hero Renaud, and his enchantment and finally his disenchantment and his abandonment of her; the secondary characters have no real life.
		One is the extraordinary soft, sensuous tone of the music; Gluck said that it was meant ‘to produce a voluptuous sensation’, and that if he were to suffer damnation it would be for the passionate love duet in Act 5.
		Secondly, there are several great solo dramatic scenes, two of them for Armide herself: the opera’s closing scene, in which she rails furiously at Renaud’s treachery, and one at the end of Act 2, where, discovering him asleep and torn between love and hatred of her enemy, she cannot bring herself to kill him.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /gramofilereview.asp?reviewID=9906131&mediaID=180760 (794 words)

	RAINA KABAIVANSKA
		She is Armide above all with her enchanting presence on the stage, troubling and authoritative.
		This Armide is always before our eyes, being at the same time a heroine born of mythology, and a woman in love, fooled in a turmoil of emotions, which Kabaivanska interprets beautifully.
		Her Armide’s greatest conquest is not the seduction of Renaud but the fact that she succeeded in adopting Gluck’s style with such truthfulness and authority, and with a voice capable of both reciting the text (in French!) and following the rules of singing, taking constant care of timbre and stylistic nuances.
	www.rainakabaivanska.net /critique_a.php?page=news_show&nid=39 (220 words)

	Watches-Gluck- L'innocenza giustificata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gluck - Armide / Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, Podles, Beuron, Polegato, KozenÃ¡, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski
		As usual from Gluck irrationality, irrelevance and stagy operatic nonsense generally are sternly excluded.
		Gluck's music depends entirely on inspiration, lacking the professional resourcefulness that almost any other composer of comparable stature would have thought indispensable, but when the inspiration is on him that never seems to me to matter, and his unflinching rationality is always a dependable bonus too.The legend here is found in both Livy and Ovid.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_gluck_linnocenza_giu-B00015VVHK.htm (805 words)

	HOASM: Christoph Willibald Gluck
		Gluck's father, Hans Adam, was hunting and forest master for the Lobkowitz family in the Upper Palatinate, later in northern Bohemia.
		Gluck's early attempts to practice musical instruments were reportedly thwarted by his father, who had his son assist him in the hunt.
		In 1750 Gluck married Maria Anna Bergin, daughter of a merchant with close ties to the imperial court.
	www.hoasm.org /XIID/XIIDGluck.html (669 words)

	Armide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over $105,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		Armide is the English form for the name Armida, a witch in Torquato Tasso's epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered" (1580).
		The sequence of the poem recounting her love affair with the Christian knight Renaud (Rinaldo) inspired many operas, including:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armide (137 words)

	Opera @ Suite101
		Opera Armide by Christoph Willibald von Gluck: plot synopsis, character list, and other C.W. Gluck opera information.
		Alceste (Alcestis) by Christoph Willibald von Gluck: plot summary, character list, and other C.W. Gluck opera information.
		Ascanio in Alba, KV 111, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: plot summary, character list, and other Mozart opera information.
	opera.suite101.com (187 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Christoph Willibald von Gluck
		Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (b Erasbach, 1714; d Vienna, 1787).
		Gluck set forth his operatic creed in the preface to Alceste.
		The simplicity and sublimity of Gluck's melodies, supported by a vivid dramatic sense, have ensured the survival of a large proportion of his mus.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/gluck.html (479 words)

	Lully - Armide / Laurens Â· Crook Â· Gens Â· Rime Â· DeletrÃ© Â· Ragon Â· Collegium Vocale Â· La ...
		Lully's Armide is considered the highpoint of his collaboration with the librettist Quinault, and indeed all of France's Tragedie Lyrique.
		The structure is much different from Italian opera seria, for those of you who have gotten used to the endless alternation of recititative and aria--much more focus is put on the recitative aspect.
		Armide really pours out her feelings in "Ah!, Si la liberte me doit etre ravie" and "Le perfide Renaud me fuit".
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B00000078X (480 words)

	Armide (Gluck) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Armide (Gluck) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Armide (Gluck) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Armide (Gluck).
		Here you will find more informations about Armide (Gluck).
		The orginal Armide (Gluck) article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Armide-Gluck.html (233 words)

	Editions. (from Gluck, Christoph Willibald) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Christoph Willibald Gluck pioneered “reform operas,”; in which music enhanced the drama of a powerful and poetic story.
		Shortly after Handel's last London opera, the city was visited by the German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
		What he saw in 1746 seems to have reinforced his belief that the conventional Italian opera of the day was illogical and incapable of expressing faithfully the full range and intensity of human feelings.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=2748 (692 words)

	Christoph Willibald Gluck
		He met the poet Calzabigi and the choreographer Angiolini, and with them wrote a ballet-pantomime Don Juan (1761) embodying a new degree of artistic unity.
		In 1764 he composed an opéra comique, La rencontre imprévue, and the next year two ballets, he followed up the artistic success of Orfeo with a further collaboration with Calzabigi, Alceste (1767), this time choreographed by Noverre; a third, Paride ed Elena (1770), was less well received.
		Gluck's opera reforms - they are not exclusively his own, for several other composers (notably Jommelli and Traetta, both like Gluck French-influenced) had been working along similar lines - are outlined in the preface he wrote, probably with Calzabigi's help, to the published score of Alceste.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/gluck.html (486 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Gluck: Armide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Armide: Act I: Scene 4 - Choeur: Poursuivons jusqu' au trépas (Armide, Sidonie, Phenice, Hidraot, Aronte, peuples de Damas)
		The subtle and sublime nature of much of Gluck’s music for this particular work is indescribable.
		Now if Minkowski would also start recording Gluck’s unknown opera seria we are bound to discover even more treasures of this much-neglected composer.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000026BO7 (1344 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Composer of the Week - Part Four
		Gluck's quick temper and combative nature earned him an unenviable reputation, and when he spent six months rehearsing his next opera for Paris, he stretched the performers' tolerance to the limit.
		Nevertheless, Iphigenie en Aulis was a great success and it was the making of Gluck in the capital.
		Donald Macleod introduces highlights from this and his next great success in Paris, Armide.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/cotw/pip/j7nyi (108 words)

	Opere liriche: Tutte le informazioni su Opere liriche su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alceste - Christoph Willibald Gluck - Jean Baptiste Lully
		Armida (Armide), Christoph Willibald Gluck - Franz Joseph Haydn - Jean Baptiste Lully - Tommaso Traetta
		Demofoonte - Christoph Willibald Gluck - Johann Adolph Hasse - Niccolò Jommelli - Leonardo Leo
	www.encyclopedia.it /o/op/opere_liriche.html (551 words)

	Sheet Music song - GAVOTTE (C W VON GLUCK) (FROM THE OPERA 'ARMIDE') ~ The BarrTre Album (Flute / Piano)
		GAVOTTE (C W VON GLUCK) (FROM THE OPERA 'ARMIDE') - The BarrTre Album (Flute / Piano)
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