Pierre Gardel

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Pierre-Gabriel Gardel

Pierre , actually Pierre-Gabriel Gardel (born February 4, 1758 in Nancy , † October 18, 1840 in Paris ), was a French dancer and choreographer .

Gardel is the son of a dance master from the Royal Ballet at the court of the Polish King Stanisław I. Leszczyński . He made his debut in 1771 as Danseur noble in smaller roles. In 1774 he was at the École de danse de l'Académie royale de musique. In the same year he came to the Opéra de Paris, where he studied with his older brother Maximilien Gardel (1741–1787). In 1780 he was appointed Primo Ballerino, but had to end his dancing career a short time later for health reasons. In 1783 he became an assistant to his brother Maximilien. In 1787, Maximilien was appointed maître de ballet as the successor to his late brother. His assistant was Louis Milon . In 1795 he married the dancer Marie-Elisabeth-Anne Boubert, known as Miller. From 1790 to 1829 he created numerous ballets. He appeared for the last time in 1829 in a minuet with Marie Taglioni .

He choreographed the dances for the opera Dardanus (1784) by Antonio Sacchini , Tarare (1787) and Les Danaïdes (1808) by Antonio Salieri to Demophon (1788), Anacréon (1803) and Les Abencérages (1807) by Luigi Cherubini to Aspasie by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1789), on the joint work Le triomphe de Trajan by Jean-François Lesueur and Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis (1807), on Gaspare Spontinis La vestale (1807) and Olimpie (1819) and most recently also on Gioacchino Rossini's Le siège de Corinthe (1826) and Moïse et Pharaon (1827).

Works

  • 1786: Les Sauvages
  • 1790: Télémaque dans l'île de Calypso ; Psyche
  • 1791: Bacchus et Ariane
  • 1793: Le Jugement du berger Pâris ; The Triomphe de la République or the Camp de Grand-Pré
  • 1800: La Dansomanie
  • 1802: Le Retour de Zéphire
  • 1803: Daphnis et Pandore
  • 1804: Une demi-heure de caprice ; Achille à Scyros
  • 1806: Paul et Virginie
  • 1808: Vénus et Adonis ; Alexandre chez Apelles
  • 1809: La Fête de Mars
  • 1810: Vertumne et Pomone ; Persée et Andromède
  • 1812: L'Enfant prodigue
  • 1814: Le Retour des lys
  • 1815: L'Heureux Retour
  • 1817: Les Fiancé de Caserte
  • 1818: La Servante justifiée ; Proserpine ; Zirphiles

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SURNAME Gardel, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardel, Pierre-Gabriel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1840
Place of death Paris