Chapter 22 No.22

The Reforms of Gluck

His early Italian operas-His conversion and the cold reception of his new ideas in Vienna-Recognized in Paris as Rameau's successor-The conquest of Piccini-Gluck's theory of the lyric drama-How he developed it in practice-His immediate successors and imitators.

IN spite of the labors of Rameau the prevailing style of Ital