[PAR] [TLE] La corona (Gluck) [SEP] La corona ("The Crown") is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.  It takes the form of an "azione teatrale" in one act.  The Italian-language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio.  The opera was intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I on 4 October 1765 but the emperor died in August and it remained unperformed until the 20th century. [PAR] [TLE] Christoph Willibald Gluck [SEP] Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (] ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.  Born in the Upper Palatinate (now part of Germany) and raised in Bohemia, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna, where he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years.  With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them "Orfeo ed Euridice" and "Alceste", he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian "opera seria" had enjoyed for much of the century.
[PAR] [TLE] La corona ( Gluck ) [ SEP ] La corona ( " The Crown " ) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck . It takes the form of an " azione teatrale " in one act . The Italian - language libretto is by Pietro Metastasio . The opera was intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I on 4 October 1765 but the emperor died in August and it remained unperformed until the 20th century . [PAR] [TLE] Christoph Willibald Gluck [ SEP ] Christoph Willibald ( Ritter von ) Gluck ( ] ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787 ) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period . Born in the Upper Palatinate ( now part of Germany ) and raised in Bohemia , he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna , where he brought about the practical reform of opera 's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years . With a series of radical new works in the 1760s , among them " Orfeo ed Euridice " and " Alceste " , he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian " opera seria " had enjoyed for much of the century .
Which composer born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia wrote an operate intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I?
Which composer born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia wrote an operate intended to celebrate the name day of Emperor Francis I ?
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck