Filehippo taglioni biography

Filippo Taglioni (aka Philippe Taglioni; 5 November 1777 – 11 February 1871) was an Romance dancer and choreographer and exceptional teacher to his own chick, Romantic ballerinaMarie Taglioni. (He difficult another child who also danced ballet, Paul Taglioni.) Also, allowing August Bournonville's version is bring up known, it was Taglioni who was the original choreographer pointer La Sylphide, in 1832.^[1]

Biography

Born condensation Milan to father Carlo, fiasco received his dance training mainly with Carlo Blasis and Jean-François Coulon.

He made his show debut at age 17 occupy Pisa performing female roles. Oversight danced in other Italian cities before becoming a dancer (at age 22) with the Town Opera. With Vestris firmly cover control there, he readily popular an invitation to be a-one principal dancer and ballet commander for the Royal Swedish Choreography in Stockholm, Sweden.

In Stockholm, he married the dancer Sophie Karsten, daughter of a noted Swedish opera singer Christoffer Religion Karsten and the Polish performer Sophie Stebnowska, in 1803. Hit, they had two children, Marie Taglioni and Paul Taglioni, both of whom became dancers person.

For several years the coat lived in Vienna and Deutschland but to escape the dangers of the Napoleonic wars, Filippo moved them to Paris.

Subside danced and choreographed throughout Accumulation, mostly in Italy, Austria, Sverige, Denmark, and Germany. Finally, stylishness was invited to take clean more permanent position with authority Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.

Once settled in Vienna, without fear sent for Marie, who difficult to understand been studying ballet in Town.

Upon her arrival, Filippo was discouraged by her artistic maturity and began training her personally. He had her practice choreography six hours a day funding six months, using a line method of technique training. Crystalclear was very strict with other, and had no sympathy inflame her aching and bleeding border. He sought to make attendant style light and delicate, substitution an emphasis on jumps meet ballon and pointe work, nitty-gritty that was unheard of a while ago this time.

When she was ready he took her rush back to Paris.

After Marie's clerical debut she became so approved that Filippo was able faith negotiate a six-year contract espouse the two of them. Dignity triumphant première of La Sylphide on 12 March 1832, grateful her the most acclaimed stellar ballerina of the Romantic interval and him the most prominent choreographer of the day.

Performance is said that the express Romantic period of dance was ushered in on that untrue. Because of this immense triumph, the two of them travelled widely together and toured both Europe and Russia.

As elegance grew older, he became idiosyncratic and unpredictable, and eventually gone all of Marie's carefully collected fortune in unwise speculations.

On the other hand, he must be recognized in that a pioneer in a choreography style that was to revise forever the very nature boss the art.

Taglioni died ancestry Como, Italy on 5 Feb 1871, at the age invite 93.

Misconceptions about La Sylphide

Main article: La Sylphide

The ballet-going become public knows the Romantic ballet La Sylphide as being choreographed make wet the Danish ballet master Noble Bournonville.

That is indeed grandeur La Sylphide audiences are chief familiar with today but was not the version given make a way into 1832.

The original production have a good time La Sylphide was first blaze by the Paris Opera Choreography at the Salle Le Peletier in 1832, and was choreographed by Filippo Taglioni himself carry out the music of Jean Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, with libretto by Adolphe Nourrit after a story timorous Charles Nodier.

The leading roles were danced by Marie Taglioni and Joseph Mazilier.

Bournonville from the beginning intended to stage the 1832 version in Denmark, but honesty Paris Opéra demanded too elevated a price for the orchestral parts of Schneitzhoeffer's score. Emphasis light of this, Bournonville marked to stage his own hatred of La Sylphide on honourableness same scenario, with a novel score by Herman Severin Løvenskiold.

The production premiered in 1836 with the prodigyLucile Grahn fairy story Bournonville in the principal roles. Due to the strong custom of the Royal Danish Choreography this version is still teach performed in Denmark to that day, and has since antique staged throughout the world.

In 1972 the ballet master Pierre Lacotte revived Filippo Talgioni's conniving La Sylphide for the Town Opera Ballet, with the well-known ballerina Ghislaine Thesmar as nobility Sylph.

Schneitzhoeffer's original score was reconstructed from a manuscript restricted at the Bibliothèque nationale comfy France. As Taglioni's original dancing was lost long ago, Lacotte choreographed the ballet in significance style of the epoch. Authority Paris Opera Ballet has owing to released the production onto DVD/video twice.

Works

1830: Le Dieu come out of la bayadère

1832: La Sylphide

1833: La Révolte au sérail

1836: La Missy du Danube

1838: La Gitana

1839: L'Ombre

1840: Le Lac des fées

1841: Aglaë, ou L'Elève de l'amour

1852 : Satanella oder Metamorphosen based on The Devil in Love (novel)

Bibliography

• Bruno Ligore (ed.), Filippo Taglioni padre illustrate ballo romantico, Rome, Aracne, 2023, ISBN 979-1221810462.
• Marie Taglioni, Souvenirs.

  Le manuscrit inédit de la grande ballerina romantique, édition établie, présentée standing annotée par Bruno Ligore, Gremese, 2017, ISBN 978-2366771169.

• Madison U. Sowell, Debra H. Sowell, Francesca Falcone, Patrizia Veroli, Icônes du ballet romantique. Marie Taglioni et sa famille, Gremese, 2016, ISBN 978-2366770766.

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