"Which 18th century German composer wrote over 40 operas including ""Orfeo"" and ""Alceste"", comic operas and instrumental music?"
History of music in Paris had already written a series of successful Italian operas. In Vienna, he had studied French and had been the music teacher of the young Marie Antoinette. In 1774, he staged the opera "Iphigénie en Aulide" in Paris, which became a huge popular triumph; he followed it with a French version of "Orfeo ed Euridice", which he had written in Vienna in 1762, and then "Alceste", reviving the classical lyrical tragedy style. The supporters of Italian opera responded by bringing the Italian opera composer Niccolo Piccinni to Paris in 1776. The rival new operas written by Gluck and Piccinni did not
Lost operas by Claudio Monteverdi Goehr worked from Rinuccini's original script and, as a tribute to the historic opera, incorporated sections of Monteverdi's setting of the lament into his score. Notes References Sources Lost operas by Claudio Monteverdi The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), in addition to a large output of church music and madrigals, wrote prolifically for the stage. His theatrical works were written between 1604 and 1643 and included ten operas, of which three—"L'Orfeo" (1607), "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" (1640) and "L'incoronazione di Poppea" (1643)—have survived with their music and librettos intact. In the case of the other seven operas, the music