Christoph Willibald Gluck vs Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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Compare the life timelines of Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 66 years, from 1717 to 1783.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
- — Born in Erasbach, Upper Palatinate Verified
- — Studied and worked as a musician in Prague Verified
- — Premiere of his first opera, Artaserse, in Milan Verified
- — Visited London and met Handel Verified
- — Married Maria Anna Bergin in Vienna Verified
- — Settled in Vienna as a court composer Verified
- — Knighted with the Order of the Golden Spur Verified
- — Premiere of the reform opera Orfeo ed Euridice Verified
- — Premiere of Iphigénie en Aulide in Paris Verified
- — Died in Vienna Verified
Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)
- — Born in Paris and abandoned at the church of Saint-Jean-le-Rond Verified
- — Studied at the Collège des Quatre-Nations Verified
- — Elected to the French Academy of Sciences Verified
- — Published the Traité de dynamique Verified
- — Derived the one-dimensional wave equation for a vibrating string Verified
- — Co-edited the Encyclopédie and wrote its Preliminary Discourse Verified
- — Elected to the Académie française Verified
- — Became permanent secretary of the Académie française Verified
- — Died in Paris Verified