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Famous composers and neurological disorders - Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) : a patography

C.W. Gluck was born in Ersbach - Bavaria. During his young years he moved through many parts of his native Austrian Monarchy (Prague, Vienna, Milan) and around Europe too. Well musically educated and with his dramatic music he became a reformer, especially in the field of opera. The European aristocracy as well as some Emperors gave him great support. Having great success in opera houses in Vienna, Paris and London he became very rich and had many gallant affairs with primadonnas and other women. So he contracted a so-called galant disease lues. He remained ill for a longer period and had a very slow recovery. After many successful years in Paris he returned to Vienna in 1775, feeling tired and ill. On his last trip to Paris he had transitory paresis attacks but he recovered. In 1791, he had a real stroke with right hemiparesis, dysphasia and dysgraphia. In his last years he was aware of losing his strength, so he composed less and less. He wrote: "I am indifferent and suffering melancholy". In 1784, after pneumonia he had another stroke. For a time he recovered partially but left all his plans for the future. In 1787, he had his third stroke and a few hours afterwards died without ever regaining consciousness.

neurological disorders ; Christoph Willibald Gluck

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