Nicolaus Adam Strungk

…reappear in the German composer Nicolaus Adam Strungk’s opera Esther (1680) to provide local colour but seem not to have been in general use until the craze for Turkish Janissary music gripped Europe a century later. Christoph Gluck used cymbals in Iphigénie en Tauride (1779), as did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…