Chapter 11 GLUCK THE DOMESTIC, ROUSSEAU THE CONFESSOR, AND THE AMIABLE PICCINNI

While H?ndel was in London at the height of his autocracy, he was visited by a composer named Gluck, whom we think of to-day as a revolutionist in music, and a man of the utmost historical importance. To the lordly H?ndel, however, he was more or less contemptible, and people who know nothing else of either genius, know that H?ndel said, "Gluck und