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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Gluck, detail of a painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1775; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Christoph Willibald Gluck was born on July 2, 1714, in Erasbach, near Berching, in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria (modern-day Germany).1