Gluck's Echo and Narcissus



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The 18th-century German composer Christoph Gluck began the process of opera reform that was to dominate the style of opera composition in the the 18th and 19th centuries. He studied under the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini, was appointed court composer in Vienna, and was well received in Paris and London. Gluck’s early operas were firmly based in conventional Italian opera style, but he later became influenced by the radical ideas of his time and by movements of reform. Echo and Narcissus was completed in 1779 and first performed in Paris.

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Gluck, Christoph Willibald

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