S. L. (Sergei Leonidovich) Grigoriev papers, 1889-1972.

Auric, Georges, 1899-1983

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French composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Paris, 23 June 1925, and [London], 23 June 1926, to Mme [Louise] Alvar, 1925, 23 June and 1926, 23 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270680749 From the description of [Les fâcheux. Album leaf] : autograph manuscript, 1925 June 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270561533 From the description of [La concurrence] : autograph manuscript, 1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270561528 ...

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847

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Felix Mendelssohn, composer of the early Romantic period. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was bapt...

Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991

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Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company), eventually being appointed prima ballerina assoluta of the company by Queen Elizabeth II. She was born Margaret Evelyn Hookham on May 18, 1919, to Felix John Hookham and Hilda Acheseon Fontes. She studied at the Vic-Wells Ballet School and made her solo debut in 1935 under the stage name "Margot Fonteyn". She was best know for her artis...

Ansermet, Ernest, 1883-1969

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Swiss conductor. From the description of Document signed, dated : London, 14 June 1921, 1921 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873879 The Orchestre symphonique de Paris was founded in 1929; Calvocoressi prepared the French translation of Boris, eventually for performances in Paris at the Salle Gaveau, 31 December 1935. Cf. Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera. From the description of Letter : to M.D. Calvocoressi, Paris, [between 1929 and 1935] Mar. 20. (Harva...

Edwards, Leslie

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Toumanova,Tamara 1919-1996

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Moldon, Peter

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Stoker, Adrian

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Massine, Leonide, 1896-

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Antal Dorati.

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Borovsky, Mechislav.

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Liadov, Anatoly

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Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918

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Claude Debussy (b. 22 August 1862–d. 25 March 1918) was one of the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France he attended the Conservatoire de Paris originally to study piano before switing to composition. His orchestral works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), Nocturnes (1897–1899), Images (1905–1912). In 1904 he rose to international fame for his opera Pelléas et Mélisande. He also composed two books of Préludes a...

Webster, David

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Alhambra Theatre

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Tcherepnine, Nicolas

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Massine, Leonid, 1896-

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Nijinska, Bronislava, 1891-1972

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Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Defosse, Henry

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Ballets russes de Serge de Diaghilev.

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Châtelet (Theatre: Paris, France).

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Dmitriev, Vladimir

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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

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Sergei Denham (1896-1970) was a Russian-born banker and director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Leonide Massine (1896-1979) was Russian dancer and choreographer and artistic director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the description of Records concerning Leonide Massine, 1939-1969 (inclusive), 1942-1954 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557063 The Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo was a company that existed between 1938 and 1962 under the directorship of Sergei...

Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew

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Slavinsky, Thaddeus

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Dorati, Antal

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Constable Publishers

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Sedova, I︠U︡lii︠a︡ Nikolaevna, 1880-1969

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Ballets russes

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The Ballets russes, founded by Serge Diaghilev in Paris in 1909, toured Spain and Portugal in 1917-1918, performing in Lisbon in December, 1918. From the description of Payroll for Ballets russes performances in Portugal, 1918 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162736 From the description of Payroll for Ballets russes performances in Portugal, 1918 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82981905 ...

Beresford, Bill

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Serge Daighilev

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Berezov, N. (Nikolai), 1906-

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Grigorʹev, S. L. (Sergeĭ Leonidovich), 1883-1968

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Sergei Leonidovich Grigoriev (1883-1968) was a Russian-born character dancer and rehearsal director, who primarily became known as the indispensable régisseur of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He served in that capacity from 1909 to 1929. His responsibilities included signing contracts with dancers, composers, artists and other personnel, organizing and conducting rehearsals, supervising numerous aspects of productions, and serving as a mediator between Diaghilev and the members of the company. Aft...

Martinů, Boguslav

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Moscow and Saint-Petersburg Imperial Theatres

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Lifar, Serge, 1905-

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Serge Lifar (1905-1986) was a Ukranian-born French dancer and choreographer. Igor Markevitch (1912-1983) was a Russian-born French composer and conductor. Both were Serge Diaghilev's protégées: Serge Lifar became leading dancer for the Ballets Russes; Igor Markevitch was the youngest composer ever to work for ballet. Their collaboration continued for a number of years after Diaghilev's death. From the guide to the Letters from Igor Markevitch and others, 1931-1986., (Harvard Theatre ...

Bilibin, Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich, 1876-1942

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Bilibin was a noted Russian illustrator and stage designer, especially noted for his illustrations of Russian fairy tales. From the description of [Letters to Ruth Thompson] / I. Bilibine. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 166268427 ...

Borodin, Aleksandr

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Vil'tzak, Anatolii Iosifovich

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Grigoriev family,

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Great Britain. Foreign Office

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This section not yet complete. From the guide to the Great Britain Foreign Office Records Related to Brazil N/A., 1862-1913, (Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin) ...

Dolin, Anton

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Kremnev, Nikolas.

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Miranda, Duc.

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Shvetzov, Igor

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Shollar, Ludmilla, 1888-1978

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Frederick Ashton

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Michel Fokine

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Liberson, Mikhail Grigorievich

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Col. W. de Basil

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Wollheim, Eric

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Serge Grigoriev

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I. I. Nemenskii

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Monteclair, Michel

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Grant, Alexander, 1925-

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Vil', Elsa Ivanovna.

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de Valois, Ninette, 1898-2001

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Kshesinskaia, Matilda Feliksovna, 1872-1971

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Romanoff, Boris, 1891-1957

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Massine, Léonide, 1896-1979

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Leonide Feodorovitch Miassin (Massine) was born in Moscow in 1896. His mother, Eugenia, was a soprano in the Bolshoi Theatre chorus, and his father, Feodor, played French horn in the Bolshoi Theatre orchestra. Massine's parents had a daughter, Raissa, and three other sons. Although all of his brothers were engineers, Massine entered the Imperial Theatre School at age 8, studying both drama and ballet. Massine intended a career as an actor, and, in fact, was later noted for his drama...

Vsevolod Grigoriev.

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Elizabeth, queen consort of George VI, king of Great Britain, 1900-

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Serge Diaghilev

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Rozaĭ, Georgiĭ Al'fredovich 1887-1917

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Doukoudovsky, Vladimir

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Idzikowski, Stanislas

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Lewenkaupt, Karin

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Messrs. B. Bessel and Co

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Dukelsky, Vladimir

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Schumann, Robert

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Originally composed for solo piano, 1833-1835. Collaborative orchestration of the score, 1908-1909, for the use of the Russian Imperial Ballet. No indication is given of each collaborator's contribution. First performance as a ballet St. Petersburg, 1910. First concert performance, Boston, 25 November 1938, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Carnival / Robert Schumann ; orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazounov, Li...

Jazvinsky, Jean.

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Chernysheva-Grigorieva, Lubov Pavlovna

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Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002

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Epithet: daughter of George VI; wife of Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones Title: Countess of Snowdon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000387.0x00022d ...

Grigoriev, Sergei

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Sevastianov, Gerald

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Woizikowski, Léon.

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George Balanchine

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Sullivan, J. (John), 1937-

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Epithet: Right Hon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x00000a Epithet: formerly Member of Council, Madras British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000679.0x000008 ...

Egorova, Lubov Nikolaevna, 1880-1972

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Doodie

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Gabriel Fauré.

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Vilzak, Anatole, 1896-1998

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Australian & New Zealand Theatres Ltd

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Ballets russes du Col. W. de Basil

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Leont'ev, Leonid Sergeevich, 1885-1942

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Slavinsky, Thaddeus, 1901-1945

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Serge Soudeikine

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Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997

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Ballerina and dance educator Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (1903-1907) was born in Petergof, Russia. In 1911, she began studying dance at the Russian Imperial Ballet School in Leningrad. There she met George Balanchine, with whom she would maintain a life-long friendship. In 1920, Danilova danced with the Maryinsky Ballet. She joined Balanchine's Soviet State Dancers for a tour of Western Europe in 1924. In December of that year, Sergey Diaghilev brought both her and Balanchine into his acclai...

Lubov Tchernicheva

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Nikolai Grigorievich Sergeev

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Original Ballet Russe.

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Sergei Grigoriev

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Vladimiroff, Pierre, 1893-1970

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Aleksandr Makovetskii

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Ben Vseva, Julian

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Glinka, Mikhail

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Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942

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Mikhail Fokine, Russian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and ballet director, was born in St. Petersburg May 5, 1880. He was trained at the Imperial Theatre School, St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1898. He was a dancer and choreographer at the Maryinsky Theatre and teacher at the Imperial Theatre School. His choreography for the Maryinsky included The Dying Swan for Anna Pavlova and Le Pavillion d'Armide. From 1909-1912, Fokine was chief choreographer for Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, p...

Vladimirov, Petr Nikolaevich

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Royal Ballet (Covent Garden))

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Sergei Diaghilev.

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Benois, Nicola, 1901-1988

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Mikhail Lermontov

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Strauss, Richard

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Tchaikovsky, Peter

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Blum, René

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Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

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Miró, Joan, 1893-1983

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Spanish painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Mallorca, to John Rewald, 1971 Dec. 26 and 1972 Oct. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871537 French painter. From the description of Aidez l'Espagne (poster), 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83814624 ...

Thomas Beecham

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Anna Tcherkassky

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Semenov, Nikolai.

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Educational Ballets Ltd

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Rieti, Vittorio

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Warsaw Government Theatres

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Efimov, Nicolas.

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Saint-Petersburg Imperial Ballet

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Benois, Alexandre, 1870-1960

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Russian stage designer, director, and art historian. From the description of Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Paris, 12 December 1933], to M.D. Calvocoressi in London, [1933 Dec. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873163 ...

Wood, Michael

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Epithet: tailor, of Horncastle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x00012a ...

Nikolai Sergeev

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Glazunov, Aleksandr

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0001b3 ...

Trefilova, Vera, 1875-1943

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Lichin, David

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Nemchinova, Vera

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Gilbert, Jean

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Fedorovskiĭ, Fëdor Fëdorovich, 1883-1955

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Chopin, Frédéric

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Kingland, J

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Teatro alla Scala, 1961

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The Teatro alla Scala was founded under the auspices of the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, to replace the Royal Ducal Theatre which was destroyed by fire on 26 February 1776 and had, until then, been the home of opera in Milan. La Scala, the more common name, opened on 3 August 1778 with Antonio Salieri's opera L'Europa riconosciuta, to a libretto by Mattia Verazi. La Scala today continues as one of the world's most famous opera houses. Source: http://www.teatroallascala.org From ...

Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929

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Serge Diaghilev was a Russian ballet impresario, the founder, producer and artistic director of Ballets Russes. In his late years he turned to book and manuscript collecting. He built up a collection of rare Russian printed books, manuscripts and scores. From the description of Correspondence relating to book collecting, 1925-1938 (inclusive), 1925-1929 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80095680 From the guide to the Correspondence relating to book collecting, 1925-1938...

Grigoriev, Vsevolod

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Baronova, Irina

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Irina Baronova, born in Petrograd, was one of the three legendary 'baby ballerinas' engaged by George Balanchine for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. She continued to dance with the de Basil Ballets Russes companies until 1939, coming to Australia on tour with the Covent Garden Russian Ballet in 1938-1939. Baronova left de Basil in 1939 and soon after began a new stage of her career in the United States. Baronova lived the last eight years of her life in Australia, in the hinterland of Byron B...

Calcaño, José Antonio

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Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894

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French composer, 19th century. From the description of Autograph letter from Chabrier to Vincent d'Indy, Paris, 1890 Feb. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86130420 French composer. From the description of [A draft of Maurice Ravel's orchestration]. [1918?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270568816 French composer and pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris], 7 June 1893, to [Henri Georges Heugel?], 1893 June ...

Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Daighilew

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Carl Weber

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Orlov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1889-

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Karsavina, Tamara

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Sadler's Wells royal ballet

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Balakirev, Milii

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Vernon Duke, 1903-1969

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Arensky, Anton Stepanovitch, 1861-1906

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Russian composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Nice], 10/23 March 1905, to Alexander Siloti in St. Petersburg, 1905, 10 March. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270680648 ...

Sauguet, Henri

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British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Royal Ballet (Convent Garden).

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Miasin, Leonid

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Saint-Petersburg Imperial Opera

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Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-

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Nijinsky, Vaslaw, 1890-1950

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Russian dancer and choreographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., St. Petersburg], 24 July [n.y.], to Mikhail Dimitrievich, [n.y.] July 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270582957 From the description of Autograph sentiment signed, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873596 ...

Deakin, Irving

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Irving Deakin (1894-1958) was an English-born American writer on music and dance, and a novelist, lecturer, publicity man, and radio commentator. He was educated at Eastbourne College and the Royal College of Music. He was an editor and music critic for the British-American, London (1925-1927) and European music and theater correspondent for the International Feature Syndicate (1926-1930). He worked for a number of years, during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's, in the pres...

Alexandre Benois.

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Fokine, Michele

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Saint-Petersburg Imperial Theatres

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Teatro Colón

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Fernández, Felix.

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Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.

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Preobrajenska, Olga, 1870-1962

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Ravel, Maurice

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001219.0x000308 Maurice Ravel was a French composer; the apparent recipient, Toscanini, was a conductor. From the guide to the ALS, to [Arturo Toscanini], 1930 Sept. 9, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) From the description of ALS, 1930 Sept. 9, to [Arturo Toscanini]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122682742 ...

Moscow Imperial Opera

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Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856

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French composer, 19th century. From the description of Letter from Adolphe Charles Adams to an unknown correspondent. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571784 Adolphe Adam was a French composer. He wrote primarily for the theatre, composing operas, ballets, light operas and vaudeville during his career. He is best known for some of his ballets, such as Giselle and Le Corsaire . From the guide to the Adolphe Adam Papers, undated [1803-1856], (Special Collections R...

Moscow Imperial Ballet

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev

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Cranko, John

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Bulgakov, Alekseĭ Dmitrievich, 1872-1954

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Bruce

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Epithet: of Add MS 29587 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000795.0x000108 Epithet: of Add MS 34453 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000795.0x000109 Title: Earl of Elgin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000795.0x0001...

Stravinsky, Soulima, 1910-

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Soulima Stravinsky is a pianist, teacher, and composer, son of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. From the guide to the Soulima Stravinsky papers, ca.1884-1976 (inclusive, 1950-1976, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) ...

Shollar, Ludmilla, 1888-1978

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Tchernicheva, Lubov

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Lubov Tchernicheva [Liubov Pavlovna Chernysheva] (1890 -1976) was a Russian ballerina and wife of the Diaghilev's Ballet's Russes régisseur Sergei Grigoriev. From 1913, she was a leading dancer and from 1926, a ballet mistress of Ballets Russes. After Diaghilev's death, Tchernicheva continued performing and teaching at Col. W. de Basil Ballets Russes (later Original Ballet Russe). In the 1950s, she and her husband worked together at restaging Michel Fokine's ballets. From the guide t...

Rudolf Nureyev

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Rachmaninoff, Sergei

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The Five etudes-tableaux orchestrated by Respighi are originally from Rachmaninoff's op. 33 and 39 for piano solo. From the description of 5 etudes tableaux / S. Rachmaninoff ; orchestration de Ottorino Respighi. 1930. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 62092347 Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer and pianist. From the description of Sergei Rachmaninoff letter, New York, to Princess Maria Dimitriv Gagarin, 1942 May 4. (Pennsylvania State University Lib...

Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942

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Mikhail Fokine, Russian dancer, choreographer, teacher, and ballet director, was born in St. Petersburg May 5, 1880. He was trained at the Imperial Theatre School, St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1898. He was a dancer and choreographer at the Maryinsky Theatre and teacher at the Imperial Theatre School. His choreography for the Maryinsky included The Dying Swan for Anna Pavlova and Le Pavillion d'Armide. From 1909-1912, Fokine was chief choreographer for Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev, p...

Kennedy, Elizabeth

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Riabushinskaia, Tatiana Fominichna.

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Pavloff, Michel, 1891-1981

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Pruna, Pere, 1904-1977

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Nijinska, Bronislava, 1891-1972

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Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910

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Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna, 1881-1962

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Russian avant-garde painter and designer for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Costume design, 1914? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 758880073 Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna Goncharova attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1901-1909), where she studied sculpture. Goncharova was one of the organizers of the first Jack of Diamonds exhibition (1910) and of the later Donkey Tail exhibition (1912), among others. In 1914...

Lubov Tcherniceva

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Covent Garden, London

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Powell, Ray, 1925-2003

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Lopokova, Lydia

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Edgewater, Jane

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Covent Garden Russian Ballets

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Riabouchinska, Tatiana

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Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt (Paris, France)

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Psota, Ivo Váňa

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Mikhail Larionov

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Peter Tchaikovsky

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Spessivtzeva, Olga, 1895-1991

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Basil, W. de

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Nataliia Gontcharova.

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Satie, Erik, 1866-1925

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Satie arr. the Piège de Méduse to accompany the play in 1921; Sauguet met Satie ca. 1920. Cf. New Grove online. From the description of 7 dances du Piège de Méduse : piano : Erik Satie : manuscript, [after 1921] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 671537756 Charles Gounod's opéra-comique Le médecin malgré lui, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Molière's play, was first performed in 1858. For a revival at the Festival Français in Mont...

Haskell, Arnold L. (Arnold Lionel), 1903-1980

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Falla, Manuel

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Educational Ballet.

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Ballets russes de Monte Carlo

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Gavrilov, Aleksandr.

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Diaghilev, Serge

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Romanoff, Boris

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Covent Garden Theatre

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Thomas Harris, John Philip Kemble and others proprietors of the New Theatre Royal called Covent Garden Theatre. From the description of Grant for 85 years from Covent Garden Theatre to George Raikes of Cornhill, Esq. [manuscript], 1809 September 18. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 281643481 The Covent Garden Theatre was built by John Rich in London in 1732. Also known as the Royal Opera House. From the description of Documents concerning finance...

George Frideric Handel

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Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

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Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon...

Leonid Massine.

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Valerian Svetlov

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Covent Garden Russian Ballet.

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Alexander, Grant

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Aleksei Grigorievich Taldykin

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Gaskell, Sonia

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Doubrovska, Felia, 1896-1981

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Russian-American dancer and teacher. From the description of Papers, ca. 1919-1981. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122576181 Felia Doubrovska (Felizata Dlouzhnevska, Dluzhnevska), 1896-1981,was born in Russia and was trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1913. She then joined the Maryinsky Ballet . In 1920 she left for Europe and danced with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where George Balanchine created roles for her...

Landau- Nikitina, Alice.

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Ashton, Frederick, Sir, 1904-1998

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Humphrey, Marguerita

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Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich, 1881-1964

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Russian-born artist and stage designer, who co-founded the avant-garde Rayonist movement with Natalia Goncharova, in 1910. The couple relocated to Paris in 1914 and became primary designers for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Letter, signed : Monte-Carlo, Monaco, to Natalia Goncharova, 30 April 1921. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68916791 ...

Empire Theatre

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Zverev, Nikolai

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Shervashidze, Aleksandr Konstantinovich, 1867-1968.

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Shervashidze was an artist who designed decors for the Imperial theaters in St. Petersburg, and for theaters in Paris and Brussels; he also collaborated with Di︠a︡gilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Aleksandr Konstantinovich Shervashidze Papers, ca. 1918-1933. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320410523 ...

Danilova, Aleksandra, 1907-

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Lichine, David

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David Lichine (1910-1972) was a noted choreographer, teacher, and dancer. He was born in Rostov-on-Don, in Russia. His family left Russia during the revolution and settled in Constantinople. He was later sent to Paris for his education, studying dance in Paris with Lubov Egorova and Bronislava Nijinska. He made his debut with Ida Rubinstein's Company in 1928 and with Anna Pavlova's company in 1930. Lichine danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1932 to 1945, wh...

Milii Balakirev.

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Strauss, Johann

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Epithet: the younger, composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x0003de Epithet: Composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000571.0x00000c ...

Shaw, Brian

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Tcherepnine, Nicolas, 1973-1945

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Somes, Michael, 1917-1994

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Dobujinskii, Mstislav Valerianovich, 1875-1957

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Brahms

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German Romantic composer, 19th century. From the description of Autograph letter signed from Brahms to Fritz Simrock, Rome, 1881 Apr. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122448491 From the description of Autograph letter signed from Brahms to Elise. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122541007 19th century German Romantic composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed from Brahms to unidentified correspondent, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 12...