The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the music of the past may be obtained by also considering the afterlives of a composer's works. This book asks how thestage works of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) were cultivated in nineteenth-century Paris, and concludes that although the composer was not represented formally on the stage until 1859, his music was known from a wide rangeof musical and literary environments.
| Media | Book(softcover, stapled) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9780197546000 |