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Gluck (CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD gl k)

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD (glök), a German composer; born in Weidenwang, July 2, 1714; studied music at Milan, under San Martini, and presented soon afterward several operas in theaters in Italy. Judging that his want GLUCOSE of success was partially due to the weakness of the libretti, he conjoined with himself in his labors the poet Ranieri di Calzabigi, and his next subsequent opera, "Helena and Paris," was received with tumults of applause. In 1774 he went to Paris, and presented there successively CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK several masterpieces, as "Iphigenia in Aulis," "Orpheus," "Armidas," "Iphigenia in Taurus," "Alcestes." He died in Vienna, Nov. 15, 1787.

GLÜCKSTADT (glük'stät), a town in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, on the Elbe river, 32 miles N. W. of Hamburg. Founded in 1616 by Christian IV. of Denmark, it is a pretty town, regularly built, and intersected by canals, its chief building the Rathaus (1642; restored 1874). During the Thirty Years' War Glückstadt successfully withstood three sieges; its fortifications were demolished in 1815.