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Christoph Willibald Gluck

1714 - 1787

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Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christoph Willibald Gluck has received more than 925,134 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia. Christoph Willibald Gluck is the 30th most popular composer (up from 34th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Germany (up from 76th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Composer.

Gluck is most famous for his operas, especially Orfeo ed Euridice.

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  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 30 out of 1,451. Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Dmitri Shostakovich, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Jacques Offenbach. After him are Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Guido of Arezzo, Anton Bruckner, and Johann Strauss I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 1. After him are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Joseph I of Portugal, Claude Joseph Vernet, Alaungpaya, Niccolò Jommelli, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Pontiac, and Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1787, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 1. After him are Leopold Mozart, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Alphonsus Liguori, Louise of France, Carl Friedrich Abel, Pompeo Batoni, Şahin Giray, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Charles, Prince of Soubise, Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau, and Johann Karl August Musäus.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 69 out of 7,253. Before him are Ambrose (340), Jacques Offenbach (1819), Konrad Adenauer (1876), Erich Fromm (1900), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), and Ludwig Feuerbach (1804). After him are Albertus Magnus (1206), Clara Schumann (1819), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Erich von Manstein (1887), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), and Richard Strauss (1864).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Christoph Willibald Gluck ranks 9. Before him are Richard Wagner (1813), George Frideric Handel (1685), Robert Schumann (1810), Johannes Brahms (1833), Felix Mendelssohn (1809), and Jacques Offenbach (1819). After him are Richard Strauss (1864), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Johann Christian Bach (1735), and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714).

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