Legacy Although only half of his work survived after a fire in 1809,Daniela Philippi (2012), "Zur Überlieferung der Werke Christoph Willibald Glucks in Böhmen, Mähren und Sachsen", p. 75. Gluck's musical legacy includes approximately 35 complete full-length operas plus around a dozen shorter operas and operatic introductions, as well as numerous ballets and instrumental works. His reforms influenced Mozart, particularly his opera Idomeneo (1781). He left behind a flourishing school of disciples in Paris, who would dominate the French stage throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period. As well as Salieri, they included Sacchini, Cherubini, Méhul and Spontini. His greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition. Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.
Legacy Although only half of his work survived after a fire in 1809,Daniela Philippi (2012), "Zur Überlieferung der Werke Christoph Willib?ald Glucks in Böhmen, Mähren und Sachsen", p. 75. Gluck's musical legacy includes approximately 35 complete full-length operas plus around a dozen short!er operas and operatic introductions, as well as numerous ballets and instrumental works. His reforms influenced Mozart, particularly his opera Idomeneo (1781). He left behind a flourishing school of disciples in Paris, who would dominate the French stage throughout the R:evolutionary and Napoleonic period. As well as Salieri, they included Sacchin?i, Cherubini, Méhul and Spontini. His greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition. Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.