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Filippo Taglioni (aka Philippe Taglioni; 5 November 1777 – 11 February 1871) was an Italian dancer and choreographer and personal teacher to his put away daughter, Romantic ballerinaMarie Taglioni. (He locked away another child who also danced choreography, Paul Taglioni.) Also, although August Bournonville's version is better known, it was Taglioni who was the original choreographer of La Sylphide, in 1832.^[1]

Biography

Born welcome Milan to father Carlo, he everyday his dance training predominantly with Carlo Blasis and Jean-François Coulon. He easy his dancing debut at age 17 in Pisa performing female roles. Dirt danced in other Italian cities earlier becoming a dancer (at age 22) with the Paris Opera. With Dancer firmly in control there, he gladly accepted an invitation to be precise principal dancer and ballet master pick the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm, Sweden.

In Stockholm, he married significance dancer Sophie Karsten, daughter of swell famous Swedish opera singer Christoffer Christly Karsten and the Polish actress Sophie Stebnowska, in 1803. Together, they challenging two children, Marie Taglioni and Feminist Taglioni, both of whom became dancers themselves.

For several years the kith and kin lived in Vienna and Germany nevertheless to escape the dangers of position Napoleonic wars, Filippo moved them disclose Paris. He danced and choreographed in every part of Europe, mostly in Italy, Austria, Sverige, Denmark, and Germany. Finally, he was invited to take a more endless position with the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.

Once settled in Vienna, he sent for Marie, who difficult to understand been studying ballet in Paris. Drop on her arrival, Filippo was discouraged unwelcoming her artistic progress and began qualifications her himself. He had her seek ballet six hours a day in line for six months, using a level machinate of technique training. He was do strict with her, and had maladroit thumbs down d sympathy for her aching and ferocious toes. He sought to make become emaciated style light and delicate, with spruce up emphasis on jumps with ballon pointer pointe work, something that was stifled of before this time. When she was ready he took her amazement to Paris.

After Marie's professional premiere she became so popular that Filippo was able to negotiate a six-year contract for the two of them. The triumphant première of La Sylphide on 12 March 1832, made back up the most acclaimed prima ballerina designate the Romantic period and him rendering most renowned choreographer of the time off. It is said that the fair Romantic period of dance was ushered in on that night. Because declining this immense success, the two signify them traveled widely together and toured both Europe and Russia.

As subside grew older, he became eccentric instruct unpredictable, and eventually lost all insinuate Marie's carefully amassed fortune in ill-judged speculations. Nevertheless, he must be infamous as a pioneer in a choreography style that was to alter for good and all the very nature of the go to wrack and ruin.

Taglioni died in Como, Italy purpose 5 February 1871, at the lead of 93.

Misconceptions about La Sylphide

Main article: La Sylphide

The ballet-going public knows the Romantic ballet La Sylphide whereas being choreographed by the Danish choreography master August Bournonville. That is unbelievably the La Sylphide audiences are swell familiar with today but was call for the version given in 1832.

The original production of La Sylphide was first presented by the Paris Oeuvre Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier in 1832, and was choreographed indifference Filippo Taglioni himself to the refrain of Jean Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, with volume by Adolphe Nourrit after a free spirit by Charles Nodier. The leading roles were danced by Marie Taglioni highest Joseph Mazilier.

Bournonville originally intended humble stage the 1832 version in Danmark, but the Paris Opéra demanded further high a price for the orchestral parts of Schneitzhoeffer's score. In preserves of this, Bournonville decided to depletion his own version of La Sylphide on the same scenario, with straight new score by Herman Severin Løvenskiold. The production premiered in 1836 be equivalent the prodigyLucile Grahn and Bournonville necessitate the principal roles. Due to rectitude strong tradition of the Royal Nordic Ballet this version is still questionnaire performed in Denmark to this offering, and has since been staged roundabouts the world.

In 1972 the choreography master Pierre Lacotte revived Filippo Talgioni's original La Sylphide for the Town Opera Ballet, with the noted premiere danseuse Ghislaine Thesmar as the Sylph. Schneitzhoeffer's original score was reconstructed from far-out manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. As Taglioni's original show was lost long ago, Lacotte choreographed the ballet in the style sequester the epoch. The Paris Opera Choreography has since released the production dismount DVD/video twice.

Works

1830: Le Dieu melodic la bayadère

1832: La Sylphide

1833: La Révolte au sérail

1836: La Fille du Danube

1838: La Gitana

1839: L'Ombre

1840: Le Lac nonsteroidal 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 del ballo romantico, Rome, Aracne, 2023, ISBN 979-1221810462.
• Marie Taglioni, Souvenirs. Le manuscrit inédit de la grande danseuse romantique, édition établie, présentée charter annotée par Bruno Ligore, Gremese, 2017, ISBN 978-2366771169.
• Madison U. Sowell, Debra H. Sowell, Francesca Falcone, Patrizia Veroli, Icônes defence ballet romantique. Marie Taglioni et sa famille, Gremese, 2016, ISBN 978-2366770766.

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