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The Ballets of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber.
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ISBN: 1283192780 1443830224 9786613192783 9781443830225 9781443829878 1443829870 Year: 2011 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (Caen 29 January 1782- Paris 12/13 May 1871) is primarily remembered as one of the great masters of opéra-comique, but also played a very important role in the development of Romantic ballet through the long danced interludes and divertissements in his grand operas La Muette de Portici, Le Dieu et la Bayadère, Gustave III, ou Le Bal masque, Le Lac des fées, L'Enfant prodigue, Zerline, and the opéra-ballet version of Le Cheval de bronze. Auber also adapted music of...


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French romantic ballets : Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, La sylphide, Adolphe-Charles Adam, Giselle and Le Corsaire
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ISBN: 144383839X 9781443838399 1443837970 9781443837972 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 1830-1870. The Romantic ballet had been inaugurated by Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable (21 November 1831) with its ghostly Ballet of the Nuns, risen from their graves and dancing in the moonlight, led by their spectral Abbess; a role created by Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) to her father's choreography. La Sylphide (1832), inspired by this situation, was the first fully fledged Rom...

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