- Christoph Willibald Gluck - http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/gluck.html
Classical Music Pages essay from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music includes portrait and details of changes in opera during his life.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - http://www.humanitiesweb.org/cgi-bin/human.cgi?s=c&p=c&a=i&ID=34
Biography, key works, timeline, recommended recordings, quotes, and suggested further resources from Humanities Web.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - http://www.hoasm.org/XIID/XIIDGluck.html
Biography noting his escape from his father's disapproval, portraits, partial discography, notable works, and related material from theHere Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
- Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 - http://www.eaglesweb.com/John_Louis_Miller/R_Gluck.PDF
John Louis Miller translation of the E. T. A. Hoffmann story of a series of encounters with the composer. If the date is correct then the story is a fabrication; however, it gives insight into Gluck's later life. [PDF]
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4481
Find A Grave entry of the composer's tomb with biographical background and links to others buried in the cemetery.
- Classical Music Archives - Biography of Gluck - http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/gluck.html
Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of music. Some of his works offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Includes time line, download and playing instructions, and links to artist pages.
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=3721
Biography tracing his progression from Bohemia through much of Europe, showing his collaborators, noting his influence on opera, and providing a summary list of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787) - http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/g/gluck.html
Vocal works, some with German, French, or Italian texts, a few also with English translations. From the Lied and Art Song Texts Page at REC Music.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0323220/
Filmography listing movies and television programs based upon or otherwise using his works from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
- Gluck, Christoph (1714 - 1787) - http://www.naxos.com/composer/btm.asp?fullname=Gluck,%20Christoph%20Willibald
Brief biography, caricature, and summaries of his operatic and balletic music with Naxos discography.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - http://www.karadar.it/Dictionary/gluck.html
Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary entry features life, operas, portraits and scanned manuscripts, and MIDI audio files.
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