Excerpt from Gluck and the Opera: A Study in Musical History
So far as I am aware, there is no English biography of Gluck. The article by M. Gustave Chouquet in Grove's "Dictionary of Music and Musicians" is grossly inadequate, and little more can be said of the late Dr. Hueffer's article in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" (9th ed.) For English readers, by far the best account of the musician and his work is that in Naumann's "History of Music," translated by Mr. Ferdinand Praeger.
Apart from the usual articles in the French and German Dictionaries and Histories, and the treatment of Gluck in books and articles dealing with the history of the opera, there are several foreign studies of the life and works of the master. Anton Schmid's "C. W. Ritter von Gluck, dessen Leben und Wirken"( Leipzig, 1854), is a very detailed biography, containing almost everything that is known of the life of Gluck.
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