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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 studied composition in Milan. After arriving in the city in the mid-1730s, he spent four years studying under the Italian organist and composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini, from whom he learned the contemporary Italian style of instrumental music.1