The Composer Who Changed Opera With ‘a Beautiful Simplicity’

The Composer Who Changed Opera With ‘a Beautiful Simplicity’

The New York Times - Music:

In the mid-1700s, Christoph Willibald Gluck overthrew the musical excesses around him. A marathon double bill in France shows the vibrancy of his vision.

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