Gluck

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 22

JOHANN CHRIS TOPH VON, (glo ok,) a German composer, B. 1714, went to Paris in 1774, and presented there succe ively several operas of standard excellence; chief among which are Alceste; Iphigenia in Aulis; and Iphigenia in Tauris. D. in Vienna, 1787. [s. 412]