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Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck was a German composer, from the Bohemian region, Czech Republic. He is considered one of the most important opera composers of Classicism in the second half of the 18th century. -
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Classicism
Classicism is the historiographical name of a cultural, aesthetic and intellectual movement, inspired by the aesthetic and philosophical patterns of classical antiquity. -
W.A. Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the seventh child, but of his six siblings only one girl, Maria Anna, survived. Considered by many to be the greatest musical genius of all time, he composed an original and powerful work that covered genres as different as comic opera, sacred music and symphonies.