Gasparo angiolini biography for kids

  • He was born in Florence and died in Milan.
  • Gasparo Angiolini was an Italian choreographer and composer who was among the first to integrate dance, music, and plot in dramatic ballets.
  • Gasparo Angiolini was born at Florence and began his career as a dancer at Lucca in 1747.

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    Development of Ballet Narrative

    Portrait of Salvatore Viganò


    Salvatore Viganò

    Engraving, [n.d.]  Born in Naples to a family of dancers and musicians, Salvatore Viganò danced for several years in his father's company.  In the late 1780s, he came beneath the influence of jean Dauberval, whose approach to the integrated ballet narrative he would both assimilate and transform.  Viganò spent the better part of the following decade in Vienna, where in 1801 he choreographed The Creatures of Prometheus, set to a score by Beethoven and an early example of coreodramma(choreodrama).  He brought this new form of danced narrative to its apogee at La Scala, where he worked for more than fifteen years.  Here, in works such as Otello(Othello), Dedalo(Daedalus), La Vestale(The prästinna Virgin), and I Titani(The Titans), he created what his nineteenth-century biographer, Carlo Ritorni, called "a sublime...ex
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    Domenico Angiolini

    Date of birth

    09.02.1731

    Date of death

    05.02.1803

    Profession

    composer, choreographer

    Country

    Italy

    Born February 9, 1731 in Florence. Italian choreographer, artist, librettist, composer. Angiolini created a new spectacle for the musical theater. Moving away from the traditional plots of mythology and ancient history, he took Moliere’s comedy as a basis, calling it “Spanish tragicomedy”. Angiolini included the customs and mores of real life in the comedic canvas, and introduced elements of fantasy into the tragic denouement.

    From 1748 he performed as a dancer in Italy, Germany, Austria. In 1757 he began staging ballets in Turin. From 1758 he worked in Vienna, where he studied with F. Hilferding. In 1766-1772, 1776-1779, 1782-1786. (for a total of about 15 years) Angiolini worked in Russia as a choreographer, and on his first visit as the first dancer. As a choreographer, he made his debut in St. Petersburg with the ballet The De

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    Angiolini, Gasparo

    1731–1803

    Dancer
    Choreographer

    Beginnings.

    Gasparo Angiolini was born at Florence and began his career as a dancer at Lucca in 1747. Like most of the prominent dancers of his time, he made his debut when he was just a teenager, and his early success brought him soon to Venice, the home of Italy's oldest opera house. He performed there during several seasons, but in his early career he was also associated with the ballets at Spoleto, Turin, and again at Lucca. By his early twenties he had risen through the ranks of these companies and was recognized as a choreographer. After a brief stint in Rome, he made his way to Vienna, where he danced with Maria Teresa Fogliazzi. At the time the notorious eighteenth-century lover Casanova was pursuing Fogliazzi, but Angiolini successfully won her hand in marriage. Following successes in Vienna the two returned to Italy, where they were the lead dancers at Turin. When Franz Hilverding, ballet master of the French theater