Bicentenary of the Death of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramatur.. Read more »gical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.

Country:	Austria
Type:	Postage stamps
Nominal:	5 öS
Year:	1987
Size:	36 x 43 mm
Perforation:	comb 13¾
Mintage:	3,300,000