Nicknamed the German Orpheus, Gluck was a revolutionary figure who influenced a whole generation of composers including Mozart, Berlioz and Wagner, the latter of whom made a modern edition of the source for this Sinfonia: the opera Iphigénie en Aulide which recounts the sacrifice the goddess Diana instructs Agamemnon to make of his daughter Iphigenia in return for fair winds on his army's sea voyage to Troy.---Gluck, auch scherzhaft Deutscher Orpheus genannt, war eine revolutionäre Figur, der...