Music Reference Services Quarterly

ISSN: 1058-8167

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Volume 5 Number 3/4

1997


Contents


Minor Ballet Composers: Biographical Sketches of Sixty-Six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of Western Ballet Music


Introduction

page 1-4

Abstract

Ballet possesses a rich tradition of music written for the dance (though in some cases the music was appropriated for the ballet from other original designs). While every music-lover is familiar with the famous scores of Tchaikovsky, Delibes, and Stravinsky, many other lesser known composers also wrote for the ballet. Several of these composers (Leon Minkus and Cesare Pugni, for example) wrote almost exclusively for the ballet; all enriched the world of dance. This work presents biographical sketches, along with selected ballet stories from the ballets they helped create, of 66 lesser known ballet composers. An introduction, a glossary of selected choreographers, and an index of ballet titles is also included.


A Note on Les Six

page 5


Composers

Arensky, Anton Stepanovich

page 7-8

Arnell, Richard Anthony Sayer

page 8-9

Arnold, Malcolm

page 9-11

Asaf'yev, Boris Vladimirovich

page 11-14

Auber, Daniel

page 14-17

Auric, Georges

page 17-19

Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich

page 19-21

Banfield Tripcovich, (Baron) Raffeallo De

page 21-22

Berners, Lord

page 22-24

Bernstein, Leonard

page 24-25

Bliss, Arthur

page 25-27

Burgmuller, Johann Friedrich Franz

page 27-28

Chausson, Ernest

page 28

Cohen, Frederick (Fritz)

page 29

Constant, Marius

page 29-30

Damase, Jean-Michel

page 30-31

Deldevez, Edouard-Marie-Ernest

page 31

Dello Joio, Norman

page 32

D'erlanger, (Baron) Frederic

page 32-33

Drigo, Riccardo

page 33-36

Dutilleux, Henri

page 36-37

Egk, Werner (Werner Mayer)

page 37-38

Fieldman, Morton

page 38

Francaix, Jean

page 38-39

Gabrielli, (Count) Nicolo

page 39-40

Gade, Nield Wilhelm

page 40-42

Gaubert, Philippe

page 42-43

Gide, Casimir

page 43-44

Gliere, Reinhold Moritzovitch

page 44-45

Gordon, Gavin Muspratt

page 45-46

Gottschalk, Louis Moreau

page 46-47

Gould, Morton

page 47

Helsted, Edvard

page 48

Henze, Hans Werner

page 48-49

Herold, Louis Joseph Ferdinand

page 50-51

Hertel, Peter Ludwig

page 51-52

Horst, Louis

page 52

Kay, Hershey

page 52-53

Lambert, Constant

page 54-56

Lecocq, Alexandre Charles

page 56

Liadov, Anatol Constantinovitch

page 56-57

Lovenskold, Herman

page 57-58

Lumbye, Hans Christian

page 58

Mader, Raoul Maria

page 59

Martinu, Bohuslav

page 59-60

Messager, Andre Charles Prosper

page 60-61

Minkus, Aloysius Ludwig (Leon Fedorovich)

page 61-64

Nabokov, Nicholas

page 64-65

Oldham, Arthur William

page 65

Paulli, Holger Simon

page 65-66

Pugni, Cesare

page 67-70

Rangstrom, Anders Johan Ture

page 71

Rieti, Vittorio

page 71-73

Riisager, Knudage

page 73-74

Roussel, Albert Charles Paul Marie

page 74-75

Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie

page 75-78

Sauguet, Henri

page 78-79

Schmitt, Florent

page 79-80

Schneitzhoeffer, Jean-Madeleine

page 80

Shchedrin, Rodion

page 80-81

Stolze, Kurt-Heinz

page 82

Subotnick, Morton

page 82

Tailleferre (Taillefesse), Germaine

page 82-83

Tcherepnin, Nikolai

page 83-84

Toye, Geoffrey

page 84-85

Warlock, Peter (Philip Heseltine)

page 85


Glossary of Choreographers

Ashton, Frederick

page 87

Balanchivadze, Georgi (George Balanchine)

page 87-88

Bournonville, August

page 88

De Mille, Agnes George

page 88-89

Fokine, Mikhail Mikhailovich (Michel)

page 89

Graham, Martha

page 89-90

Ivanov, Lev

page 90

Lifar, Serge

page 91

Massine, Leonid

page 91

Mazilier, Joseph (Giulio Mazarini)

page 91-92

Nijinska, Bronislava

page 92

Noverre, Jean-Georges

page 92-93

Perrot, Jules Joseph

page 93

Petipa, Marius

page 93-94

Petit, Roland

page 94

Robbins (Rabinowitz), Jerome

page 95

Saint-Leon, Arthur

page 95--96

Taglioni, Filippo

page 96

Valois, (Dame) Ninette De (Edris Stannus)

page 96-97


Index of Ballet Titles

page 99-111


Notes

page 113-118


Index

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Transcribed by Emma McCulloch
8 August 1997