Ritter Gluck

Ritter Gluck is a 1809 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first short story Hoffmann published when it appeared in the 15 February 1809 edition of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. Ritter Gluck was later republished in 1814 in Hoffmann's Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier. The story features German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck as a ghostly figure; the story is set in 1809, and Gluck died in 1787.