charakteristik in Glucks Orfeo”; Pierluigi Petrobelli, “La concezione dram-
matico-musicale dell’Alceste”; Bernd Baselt, “Zum Thema Händel und
Gluck”; and László Somfai, “Die wiener Gluck-Kopisten—ein Forschungs-
desiderat.”
885.Gluck e la cultura italiana nella Vienna del suo tempo. Chigiana,n.s., 9/10
(1972–1973): 235–592.
An issue devoted to Gluck, with 24 papers from the conference in Siena, Septem-
ber 1973. Of interest: Julian Rushton, “From Vienna to Paris: Gluck and the
French Opera”; Friedrich Sternfeld, “Gluck’s Operas and Italian Tradition”;
Francesco Degrada, “Aspetti Gluckiani nell’ultimo Hasse”; and Mercedes Viale
Ferrero, “Appunti di scenografia settecentesca, in margine a rappresentazioni di
opere in musica di Gluck e balli di Angiolini.” Two papers on Orfeoare entered
separately: Daniel Heartz (#906) and Michael Robinson (#908).Periodicals
886.Gluck Jahrbuch,1–4, 1913–1918. Berlin: Gluck Gesellschaft, 1913–1918.
ML410 .G56 A18.
Only four issues were published, and most of the articles have been overtaken
by later research.Letters and Documents
- Mueller von Asow, Hedwig, and Erich Hermann Mueller von Asow. The Col-
lected Correspondence of Christoph Willibald Gluck.New York: Random
House, 1962. xi, 239p. ML410 .G5 A46.
A well-annotated if poorly arranged gathering of materials, with source list
and index of names, titles, and topics. Inaccuracies and omissions were
pointed out in reviews by Winton Dean in Musical Times103 (1962): 230–
231, and Klaus Hortschansky in Die Musikforschung17 (1965): 469–471.
Prose Works
Gluck’s most renowned literary piece is the dedication to Alceste(#378).
Biographies
This major composer is without a full-scale modern biography. Some older volumes
are of use:
- Abert, Anna Amalie. Christoph Willibald Gluck.Munich: Bong, 1959. 288p.
Reprint, Zurich: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1960. ML410 G5 A55.
The standard life and works, with good descriptions of the operas. Worklist,
minor bibliography, name index. - Cooper, Martin. Gluck. London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. xv, 293p. ML410
G5 C5.
Life and works, with good presentation of the composer’s changing styles. Bib-
liography, worklist, index.
The likely author of the anticipated biography is not quite ready:
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