Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni the Elder (born April 23, 1804 in Stockholm , Sweden , † April 22, 1884 in Marseille ) was an Italian dancer.
Life
Marie Taglioni was the first star of romantic ballet . She is considered the first master of pointe dance . Her world career began when she appeared at the Paris Opera in 1832 in the ballet La Sylphide by Jean Schneitzhoeffer . The choreographer of the piece was her father, Filippo Taglioni .
On September 18, 1832, she married Jean-Pierre Victor Albert Gilbert de Voisins in London (date of birth unknown, died 1863). She had two children with him: Marie (1835–1901, married to Alexander Troubetzkoy, 1813–1889) and Georges-Philippe (1843–1893, married to Sozonga Rallli, died 1906 in Paris).
Marie Taglioni left the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris in 1837 and went to Saint Petersburg to the Mariinsky Ballet .
In 1847 she retired as a dancer, but continued to work as a dance teacher. Her brother Paul Taglioni was also a famous dancer and ballet master of the royal ballet troupe in Berlin.
Marie Taglioni's only work as a choreographer was the ballet Le Papillon by Jacques Offenbach for the dancer Emma Livry, whom she sponsored .
Johann Strauss dedicated the Marie Taglioni polka to her niece Marie Taglioni (1833–1891) .
literature
- Marie Taglioni, souvenirs. Le manuscrit inédit de la grande danseuse romantique , édition établie, présentée et annotée par Bruno Ligore, Gremese, 2017.
- Madison U. Sowell, Debra H. Sowell, Francesca Falcone, Patrizia Veroli, Icônes du ballet romantique. Marie Taglioni et sa famille , Gremese, 2016.
- Ernst Probst : queens of dance . Mainz-Kostheim 2001
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Taglioni, Marie . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 43. Part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1881, pp. 17–21 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ STRAUSS II, J .: Edition - Vol. 23: About this Recording . Retrieved May 7, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taglioni, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taglioni, Marie the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1884 |
| Place of death | Marseille |