Maximilien Gardel

Maximilien Gardel (18 December 1741, in Mannheim – 11 March 1787, in Paris) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of German descent. He was the son of Claude Gardel, ballet master to King Stanisław Leszczyński, and elder brother of Pierre Gardel.

Gardel débuted at the Académie royale de Musique in Paris in 1759 and five years later became a soloist. After sharing dance roles with Gaétan Vestris, Gardel took over from him in 1772 in the reprise of Rameau's Castor et Pollux, in which he danced with neither mask nor wig (then judged unimaginable) so as not to be deceived by his rival.

In 1773 Gardel and Jean Dauberval became Vestris' assistants. In 1781, Gardel took over the position (succeeding Noverre).

Upon Maximilien's death, his elder brother of Pierre succeeded him as ballet master of the Paris Opera.

Selected works
  • 1777 : La Chercheuse d'esprit
  • 1777 : Ninette à la cour
  • 1778 : Phaon
  • 1779 : Mirza et Lindor
  • 1781 : La Fête de Mirza
  • 1783 : La Rosière
  • 1784 : L'Oracle
  • 1785 : Le Premier Navigateur
  • 1786 : Les Sauvages
  • 1786 : Le Pied de bœuf
  • 1786 : Le Déserteur
  • 1787 : Le Coq du village
gollark: This is, well, homelab-*adjacent* at least, so I figure I might get some help here: how can I copy my ebooks from Amazon Kindle (the service, I lost my actual physical Kindle) to Calibre? I can access them in the "cloud reader" thing and the Android app (on a rooted device, and also one old enough that it seems okay with storing some app data on SD cards), but have no idea how to import the files stored on there.
gollark: The Gallery app often works okay?
gollark: Apparently Doge Linux exists: https://sourceforge.net/projects/doge-linux/
gollark: A container ship of 1TB μSD cards...
gollark: All you fancy people with "racks" and "multiple servers" …
Preceded by
Jean-Georges Noverre		 Director of the Ballet l'Opéra de Paris
1781-1787		 Succeeded by
Pierre Gardel
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.