Gluck. Kirillina L.

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) is one of the geniuses that determined the ways of developing musical art of the second half of the 18th century. Contemporaries believed that he had committed a revolution in music. The Glukovsky reform of the opera genre was the beginning of the touching love story - “Orpheus and Eurydice” (1762) and was completed by the formidable and passionate tragedy “Iphigenia in Tauris” (1779). But the path to reform was long and thorny: in his youth, Gluck served in princely chapels, worked in nomadic entraining, wrote music for the festivities of the Vienna court. His work was admired by the emperors and princes, philosophers and poets, secular ladies and scientists-encyclopedists. The book of the professor of the Moscow Conservatory Larisa Kirillina talks about how the son of a forester from the deaf Bavarian village, steadily following his vocation, conquered Italy, Austria and France, and at the end of his life became an idol of all enlightened Europe.