TY - BOOK ID - 77923224 TI - French romantic ballets : Jean-Madeleine Schneitzhoeffer, La sylphide, Adolphe-Charles Adam, Giselle and Le Corsaire AU - Letellier, Robert Ignatius. AU - Schneitzhoeffer, Jean-Madeleine AU - Adam, Adolphe PY - 2012 SN - 144383839X 9781443838399 1443837970 9781443837972 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Ballets KW - Ballet music KW - Dance music KW - Dramatic music KW - balletmuziek (genre) KW - pianoreducties KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - France UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77923224 AB - 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... ER -