Bust-length portrait drawn and engraved

by August St. Aubin. Paris, 1781 by Christoph Willibald Gluck

$400 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Image size 183 x 125 mm; sheet size 233 x 152 mm.Very slightly browned, foxed, and soiled at margins; very minor paper loss to left margin. In very good condition overall. More successfully than any of his contemporaries, Gluck translated the widespread agitation for reform of opera and theatrical dance on the part of European intellectuals into actual works for the stage, first in pantomime ballets and Italian serious operas for Vienna

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