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Gluck and detail
The cover art is a detail from a painting by Gluck ( Hannah Gluckstein ) | Gluck, a lesbian artist active in the 1920s and ' 30s.

Gluck and portrait
Peter, a Young English Girl ( 1923 – 1924 ), a portrait of the artist Gluck
Brooks's portrait shows Gluck in a starched white shirt, a silk tie, and a long black belted coat that she designed and had made by a " mad dressmaker "; her right hand, at her waist, holds a man's hat.

Gluck and by
While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.
Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

Gluck and Joseph
However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.
The best known composers from this period are Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven ; other notable names include Luigi Boccherini, Muzio Clementi, Antonio Soler, Antonio Salieri, François Joseph Gossec, Johann Stamitz, Carl Friedrich Abel, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Bruckner is greeted by ( from left to right ): Franz Liszt | Liszt, Richard Wagner | Wagner, Franz Schubert | Schubert, Robert Schumann | Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber | Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven | Beethoven, Christoph Willibald Gluck | Gluck, Joseph Haydn | Haydn, George Frideric Handel | Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach | Bach.
Replacing them came a new wave of composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri ( a disciple of Gluck ), Antonio Sacchini, Giuseppe Sarti, and Domenico Cimarosa.
The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Gluck and Vienna
However, his time at home in Vienna would be quickly brought to a close when an opportunity to write an opera for Paris arose, again through the patronage of Gluck Salieri traveled abroad to fulfill an important commission.
* 1762: Orfeo ed Euridice, first " reform opera " by Gluck, performed in Vienna
* Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1714 – 1787 ) was Kapellmeister starting 1754 for Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck ( 2 July 1714 in Erasbach near Berching ( Upper Palatinate ), Germany – 15 November 1787 in Vienna ) was an opera composer of the early classical period.
After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years.
Gluck eventually left Prague without taking a degree, and vanishes from the historical record until 1737, a possible year ( likely to have been 1736 ) in Vienna apart.
On this occasion Gluck's music was completely original, but the displeasure of the court poet, Metastasio, who called the opera " archvandalian music ," probably explains why Gluck did not remain long in Vienna despite the work's enormous popular success ( it was performed 27 times to great acclaim ).
The marriage brought Gluck financial security, and he seems to have spent most of 1751 commuting between Prague and Vienna.
Gluck finally settled in Vienna where he became Kapellmeister.
In Vienna, Gluck met likeminded figures in the operatic world: Count Giacomo Durazzo, the head of the court theatre, who was a passionate admirer of French stage music ; the librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi, who wanted to attack the dominance of Metastasian opera seria ; the innovative choreographer Gasparo Angiolini ; and the London-trained castrato Gaetano Guadagni.
In the same year Gluck returned to Vienna, where he was appointed composer to the imperial court.
Since the opera itself was a complete failure, Gluck decided to return to Vienna.
His musical heir in Paris was the composer Antonio Salieri, who had been Gluck's protégé since he arrived in Vienna in 1767, and later had made friends with Gluck.
In Vienna Gluck wrote a few more minor works but he generally lived in retirement.
On 15 November 1787, in Vienna, Gluck suffered another stroke and died a few days later.
* Brown, Bruce Alan, Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna Oxford: Clarendon Press 1991
Alceste also has no role for the castrato voice, although Gluck would return to using a castrato in his next opera, Paride ed Elena, and even rewrite the tenor role of Admetus for the soprano castrato Giuseppe Millico, in the 1770 revival of Alceste in Vienna.
In 1781 Gluck produced a German version of the opera, Iphigenia in Tauris, for the visit of the Russian Grand Duke Paul to Vienna, with the libretto translated and adapted by Johann Baptist von Alxinger in collaboration with the composer.
* Christoph Willibald Gluck becomes Konzertmeister at Vienna.
* 2009: Bartók + Vienna ; covered Gluck ( Le cadi dupé ), Haydn ( La canterina, L ' infedeltà delusa ), Mozart ( Apollo et Hyacinthus, L ' oca del Cairo, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute ), Strauss ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), Berg ( Wozzeck, Lulu ), Schoenberg ( Moses und Aron );

detail and portrait
He also drew and painted numerous copies after Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and other artists of the Renaissance but, contrary to conventional practice, he usually selected from an altarpiece a detail that had caught his attention — a secondary figure, or a head which he treated as a portrait.
This portrait of Joanna was done in Flanders, ca 1500: it is a detail from the wings of the Last Judgement Triptych of Zierikzee, by the Master of Affligem | Master of Afflighem ( Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium )
Brătianu in 1848, detail of a group portrait of Provisional Government members
The Magdeburger Reiter: a tinted sandstone equestrian monument, c. 1240, traditionally intended as a portrait of Otto I ( detail ), Magdeburg
Carnegie portrait ( detail ) in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery.
Carnegie portrait ( detail ) in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | National Portrait Gallery.
Katherine, Duchess of Buckingham, with her son George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | George, 1628 ( detail of: Image: George Villiers Duke of Buckingham and Family 1628. jpg | larger portrait ).
Caroline Norton, detail of a portrait by Frank Stone, circa 1845Caroline was soon faced with an additional tragedy ; the death of her youngest son, William, in 1842.
Coin of Azes I, portrait of the king ( detail ).
The Earl of Newport: detail from a: File: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport ; George Goring, Baron Goring by Sir Anthony Van Dyck. jpg | double portrait with Lord Goring by Sir Anthony van Dyck.
François Mansart, detail of a double portrait of Mansart and Claude Perrault, by Philippe de Champaigne
A recess printed issue from De La Rue & Co. appeared in 1898, featuring a detail from von Angeli's 1885 portrait of Queen Victoria.
It scarcely admitted-in theory at least-any exceptions to the rule ; thus it limited itself to depicting common existence, and struggled, under the pretext of being true to life, to create characters who would be as close as possible to the average run of mankind. Huysmans decided to keep certain features of the Naturalist style, such as its use of minutely documented realistic detail, but apply them instead to a portrait of an exceptional individual: the protagonist Jean Des Esseintes.
Sulfide paperweights have an encased cameo-like medallion or portrait plaque made from a special ceramic that is able to reproduce very fine detail.

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