Christoph Willibald von Gluck mawaƙin Jamus ne na ƙarni na 18. An haife shi a ranar 2 ga Yuli, 1714, a Erasbach, Upper Palatinate, kuma ya mutu a ranar 15 ga Nuwamba, 1787, a Vienna, Austria. An san shi da gudummawar da yake bayarwa a wasan opera, musamman saboda gyaran salon wasan opera. Ya nemi ƙirƙirar ƙarin kiɗan dabi'a da bayyanawa wanda ya fi dacewa da aikin ban mamaki akan mataki. Shahararrun ayyukan Gluck sun hada da "Orfeo ed Euridice," "Alceste," da "Iphigénie en Aulide." Gyaran da ya yi ya yi tasiri mai ɗorewa a kan ci gaban wasan opera kuma ya taimaka wajen share fagen ayyukan Mozart da sauran mawaƙa a zamanin gargajiya.