M. I. Glinka(Leningrad: Muzyka, 1950, reprinted 1978); about 90 pages are devoted
Ruslan and Liudmila.
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Editions
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald. Sämtliche Werke.Ed. Gerhard Croll, for the
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Presussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1951–. M3 G63.
The operas, with critical commentaries, are inAbteilung1, v.1–11; 3, v.1–26;
4, v.1–11. See #907 below.
Thematic Catalogues and Worklists
- Wotquenne, Alfred. Catalogue thématique des oeuvres de Chr. W. v. Gluck.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. Trans. into German, Josef Liebeskind. Sup-
plements in French and German, 1911. Reprint, Hildesheim: Olms, 1967. xi,
240p. ML134 .G56 W6.
Still useful; extended and corrected by Hopkinson (#882).
Bibliographies and Guides to Resources
- Howard, Patricia. Christoph Willibald Gluck: A Guide to Research. Garland
Composer Resource Manuals, 8. New York: Garland, 1987. xxiii, 178p. ISBN
0-8240-8451-9. ML134 .G56 H7.
An indispensable bibliography of 545 annotated entries, including a worklist,
library holdings, biographical studies, and essays on individual works. With a
convenient chapter on the reform opera and related genres. Indexes of works,
authors, and names. - Hopkinson, Cecil. A Bibliography of the Printed Works of C. W. von Gluck,
1714–1787.Rev. ed. New York: Broude, 1967. xiv, 96p. ML134 .G58 H7.
First edition, 1959. Gives bibliographic descriptions of all the original scores,
with locations, variants, and later publications (full scores and piano/vocals),
including separate publications of individual arias. Updates Wotquenne’s
information (#880) and adds new items. Also a “comparative table of dates of
editions” and a strong bibliography of about 120 entries. No index. Some cor-
rections were noted in the review by François Lesure in RdM43 (1967): 195. - Wortsmann, Stephan. Die deutsche Gluck-Literature. Nuremberg: Koch,
- viii, 121p. ML410 .G51 W66.
A critical survey of German writing on Gluck up to 1914. Name index.
Conferences
884.Kongressbericht Gluck in Wien. Wien, 12–16 November 1987.Ed. Gerhard
Croll and Monika Woitas. Gluck-Studien, 1. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1989. 188p.
ISBN 3-7618-0929-8. ML410 .G56 K82.
Consists of 22 papers, most of them very brief. Useful essays on the operas:
Siegfried Mauser, “Musikalische Dramaturgie und Phänomene der Personen-Christoph Willibald Gluck 175