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What work did Christoph Willibald Gluck create for the visit of the future Russian emperor Paul I to Vienna?
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Gluck, detail of a painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1775; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
For the visit of the Russian grand duke Pavel Petrovich (the future Emperor Paul I) to Vienna, Christoph Willibald Gluck produced a German version of his opera Iphigénie en Tauride, which was first performed on October 23, 1781.1