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Gluck Christoph Willibald

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Devienne, François

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Graf, Friedrich Hartmann

Grétry, André Ernest Modeste

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Hoffmeister, Franz Anton

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk

Jadin, Louis-Emmanuel

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Müller, August Eberhard

Reicha, Josef

Romberg, Bernhard

Rosetti, Francesco Antonio

Schwindel, Friedrich

Stamitz, Anton

Stamitz, Carl Philipp

Concerto for flute and orchestra in G Major Op. 4

By Gluck Christoph Willibald

C.W. Gluck: Flute concerto in G Major most likely was written during composer’s study years since the origins of the concerto is rather unknown.  This composition originally was scored with solo flute and piano, but an orchestral arrangement was added for a smaller orchestra.

Emmanuel Pahud

Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini (conductor), 2014, Warner Classics

1. Allegro

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Emmanuel Pahud

Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini (conductor), 2014, Warner Classics

2. Adagio ma non troppo

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Emmanuel Pahud

Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini (conductor), 2014, Warner Classics

3. Presto

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Gluck Christoph Willibald

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was a German (or Czech) composer who is best known for his opera works where he introduced more drama by using simpler recitative and creating a new synthesis of Italian and French opera traditions. Gluck's reforms greatly influenced Mozart, Berlioz, Weber and Wagner, sharing similar concept of music drama with the later. Gluck was born in Erasbach (eastern part of Bavaria) and raised in Bohemia, at some point studying logic and mathematics at the University of Prague, as well as playing organ, violin and cello at Týn Church.
In 1737 Gluck went to Italy where he studied music and started to compose operas from 1741 onwards, initially for annual Milanese Carnivals. In 1745 he was appointed as a house composer of the King’s Theatre in London and met Handel who made a great impression on Gluck’s style. After touring around Europe for several years, Gluck arrived in Vienna in 1754 where he taught archduchess Marie Antoinette to play harp, flute and harpsicord. Later, when she moved to Paris to become the last queen before the French Revolution, she asked Gluck to accompany her and write a new opera to be premiered in Paris. Thus, Iphigénie en Aulide was composed and sparked profound controversies among traditional Italian opera lovers and the new style of Gluck. During Vienna period Gluck devoted his time to re-develop opera genre, focusing on human drama where music and poetry would be  equally important. During 1760’s several new works of this new approach were composed: opera Orfeo ed Euridice, and ballet Don Juan.