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    Gluck was made a Knight of the Golden Spur by Pope Benedict XIV. From that time on, Gluck used the title "Ritter von Gluck" or "Chevalier de Gluck"....
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    Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George(s) (25 December 1745 – 9 June 1799) was a French violinist, conductor, composer and soldier. Moreover he demonstrated...
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  • Armide is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault. Gluck's fifth production for the Parisian stage and the composer's...
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    frequently performed works by Christoph Willibald Gluck and was notable for roles in Anacréon and Les Abencérages by Luigi Cherubini, she is best remembered...
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    featured a collection of rarely recorded works by Handel, Gluck, Cimarosa and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Following two collaboration recordings...
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  • Dédiée à Mr le Chevalier Gluck, Mise en Musique par Mr Vogel, Représentée pour la premiere fois, Par l'Accademie Royale de Musique, Le 5 Septembre 1786...
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    Carlo Maria Stuarda – Leicester Lucia di Lammermoor – Edgardo Gluck Armide – Le chevalier danois Orphée et Eurydice – Orphée (concert performance) Martín...
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    (Italian adaptation) (Verdi) Werther, Werther (Massenet) Le Chevalier des Grieux, Manon (Massenet) Jean, Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (Massenet) Faust, Faust (Gounod)...
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    (with bonus making of DVD) Ambroisie Philémon & Baucis (Le feste d'Apollo) (Christoph Willibald Gluck), 2006 – Ambroisie-Naïve-Astrée Zoroastre (Jean-Philippe...
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    Joseph Legros (redirect from Joseph Le Gros)
    Orpheus has done for M. Le Gros," commented Abbé Arnaud, a big fan of Gluck, "I am tempted to believe that the chevalier Gluck's music is more stirring...
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    Magdalena Kožená (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Gluck and Mysliveček (with the Prague Philharmonia and Michel Swierczewski), of French arias with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Minkowski, Gluck's...
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    Riccardo Primo and Ariodante, as well as several operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck including Armide (at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles), Alceste...
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    directed by Simon Lelouch, in which he performed the Melody of Orpheus by Gluck on his Guarnerius in the middle of a crowd of commuters on Line 6 of the...
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  • Dangerous Liaisons (category Works based on Les Liaisons dangereuses)
    de Volanges, mother of Cécile and cousin to Merteuil Keanu Reeves as Le Chevalier Danceny, suitor to Cécile Mildred Natwick as Madame de Rosemonde, Valmont's...
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    Cecilia Bartoli (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    and recording Baroque and early Classical era music by such composers as Gluck, Vivaldi, Haydn and Salieri. In early 2005, she sang Cleopatra in Handel's...
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    conversations with her were stilted. Under the teaching of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Maria Antonia developed into a good musician. She learned to play the harp...
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    the Encyclopédie on lyric and opera librettos. Like Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ranieri de' Calzabigi, Grimm became interested in opera reform. According...
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  • celebrated recordings, the Postillon's Song ("Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire") from Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam. Rosvaenge appeared in a wide spectrum...
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  • Nathalie Manfrino (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Michaela – CARMEN Bizet, Sarah-LE REVENANT, Eurydice-ORPHÉE Gluck, Juliette – ROMEO Gounod, Fiordiligi – COSI Mozart, Rozenn – LE ROI D’YS, Manon – MANON Massenet...
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  • Sweethearts (1913) Babes in Toyland The Red Mill Les chevaliers de la Table Ronde 1866 L'œil crevé 1867 Chilpéric 1868 Le petit Faust 1869 Mam'zelle Nitouche (1883)...
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  • 1730 to 1820. Prominent classicist composers include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian...
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    Gaspare Spontini (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    French opera. In his more than twenty operas, Spontini strove to adapt Gluck's classical tragédie lyrique to the contemporary taste for melodrama, for...
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  • development with Will Gluck producing under his Olive Bridge Entertainment banner and Keith Bunin writing the script with Gluck. Questlove was attached...
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    Claire Gibault (category People from Le Mans)
    by Monteverdi, Les Brigands by Offenbach, L'Heure espagnole and L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Haydn's Il Mondo della luna, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride...
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    Lisette Oropesa (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    operatic soprano of Cuban ancestry. Her repertoire includes works from Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Wagner, Verdi, Bizet, Massenet, Bellini...
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    and sterility of neo-Gluckism." Nevertheless, Les bayadères too shows the influence of Gluck. Its heroine, Laméa, resembles Gluck's Iphigénie (in both Iphigénie...
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    Musicologie. 1984 : François Fleurot, Le hautbois dans la musique Française 1650-1800, Éditions Picard. 2002 : Pierre Chevalier, Histoire de Saint-Jean d'Ecosse...
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    librettists' disrespect for classic mythology and the composer's parody of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice; others praised the piece highly. Orphée aux enfers...
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  • 1867 Caprice sur les airs de ballet d'Alceste de Gluck   for piano transcription after the opera Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck Keyboard: piano —...
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    Susan Graham, François Le Roux, John Mark Ainsley, Montreal SO and Chorus, Dutoit. Decca 2001 Il tenero momento (Mozart and Gluck). Orchestra of the Age...
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