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Eighteenth-century Bohemian composer Christoph Gluck embodied the international style of opera composition. He studied under Italian composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini, was appointed court composer in Vienna, and was well received in Paris and London. Gluck’s early operas were strongly based in conventional Italian opera style, but his later compositions were influenced by radical ideas of the time and movements of reform. Completed in 1779 and first performed in Paris, Echo and Narcisse is a dramatic work of love and deception.
Archive Photos/"Hymne de l'Amour" by C. Gluck, performed by Concerto Koln, from Gluck: Echo et Narcisse (Cat.# Harmonia Mundi HMC 905201.02) (p)1987 Harmonia Mundi, Ltd. All rights reserved.
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