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O del mio dolce ardor

Christoph Willibald Gluck31 August 2026Practice room, academy
A graphite pencil drawing of a treble clef at the left flowing into a wide river of many wavy parallel lines that cross the page diagonally, with small square shapes caught in the current near the right.
Composition of O del mio dolce ardor

I integrated a treble clef within, chaotic, multi-directed waves to mirror the character’s desperation and the piece’s impending sense of doom.

Driven by the intense longing and underlying doom of O del mio dolce ardor, the piece describes an overwhelming sense of love of Paris(Trojan Prince), causing me to deliberately apply variations of grey shades to encapsulate the waves of raw emotion. I was deeply moved by the lyrical contrast of “Cerco te, chiamo te, spero e sospiro,” evoking both a sigh of affection of simply breathing the same air as their beloved, and his desperate cry to intertwine their lives together.

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O del mio dolce ardor · accompanied performance