Maria Casentini

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Maria Casentini, anonymous engraving, Bonn, Beethoven-Haus, Stephan Ley collection

Maria Casentini (also Cassentini ; * around 1778 in Lucca , † after 1805) was an Italian dancer .

Life

From 1788 to 1795 she worked in Venice . In 1796 she came to Vienna with Giuseppe Trafieri , where she was prima donna of the ballet corps at the court theater until 1801 . She had one of her greatest successes with the leading role in the ballet The Forest Girl by Paul Wranitzky , which premiered on September 23, 1796. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the Twelve Variations WoO 71 on the Russian dance of this ballet .

She also danced a leading role with the ballet master Salvatore Viganò in the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus op. 43, for which Beethoven had composed the music. The first performance was on March 23, 1801.

From 1803 to 1805 she was engaged again at the Vienna Court Theater.

literature

  • Catalog of the portrait collection of the kuk General-Intendanz of the kk Hoftheater. At the same time a biographical guide in the field of theater and music. Second division. Group IV. Wiener Hoftheater , Vienna 1892, p. 443
  • Peter Clive, Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary , New York 2001, p. 68 ( excerpts from Google Books )
  • Ruth B. Emde (ed.), Achim von Heygendorff, Self-productions in classical Weimar: Caroline Jagemann, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-743-8 , p. 331

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lisa Feurweise (ed.): Quodlibets of the Viennese Theater . Middleton 2008, p. 293
  2. ↑ Variations on the danse russe dansée par Mlle. Cassentini dans le ballet "The Forest Girl" , 1796
personal data
SURNAME Casentini, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cassentini, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian dancer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucca
DATE OF DEATH after 1805