Gluck RMIT - BUNDOORA WEST brought together in one volume

brought together in one volume for the first time

During his lifetime Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in the Dunciad

concentrating on such matters as structure

capture what he saw before him

Gluck RMIT - BUNDOORA WEST brought together in one volumeThis book brings together a variety of eighteenth century sources in an attempt to construct a portrait of one of the most interesting musicians of that century. Celebrated today for his historical significance, as the one composer who did most to effect the transition between baroque and classical opera, Gluck in his lifetime was both a controversial figure and a colourful one: the sources portray a man of enormous energy, relish for good food and