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Gluck
[ glook ]
noun
- Alma Reba FiersohnMme. Efrem Zimbalist, 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.
- Chris·toph Wil·li·bald von [kris, -tawf , vil, -i-bahlt f, uh, n], 1714–87, German operatic composer.
- Louise, 1943–2023, U.S. poet: Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.
Gluck
/ ɡlʊk /
noun
- GluckChristoph Willibald von17141787MGermanMUSIC: composer Christoph Willibald von (ˈkrɪstɔf ˈvɪlibalt fɔn). 1714–87, German composer, esp of operas, including Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) and Alceste (1767)
Example Sentences
Steve Levitt talks with Gluck — his own agent — about negotiating a deal, advising prospective authors, and convincing him to co-write Freakonomics.
The series begins with a voiceover from a 9-year-old boy named Charlie (Griffin Gluck), basically a more precocious Meredith Grey.
Cast: Maggie Lawson, James Caan, Lenora Crichlow, Ben Koldyke, Cooper Roth, Griffin Gluck, J.J. Totah, Kennedy Waite.
Composers from Monteverdi to Gluck, to Stravinsky, to Philip Glass, have told it in music.
He had a short fuse and would sometimes berate her when she spoke too much to Gluck.
Santa Monica neighbor Barbara Gluck, a former New York Times photographer, saw a different side.
So in the Elysian field, to the solemn strains of Gluck's melodies, move without grief or bliss the graceful shades.
Then there was silence, but for the "gluck" with which we lifted our feet from the slush.
It is one of the glories of Berlin to give Gluck's operas, and it is also something of a glory to have "die Wagner."
An Indian would have had to gluck and cluck and glut for half a minute to make these three words plain.
What if we compared our own landscape with the music of Gluck or Mozart?
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