Ranieri de Calzabigi and Christoph Willibald Gluck, preface to Alceste (1767), in Pestelli, p. 274.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck, preface to Don Juan (1761), in Reinhard G. Pauly, Music in the Classic Period (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 161.