Howard D. Rothschild collection on of Serge Diaghilev: Manuscripts and objects, Ballets Russes 1908-1969 (inclusive), 1908-1929 (bulk).

Cocteau, Jean

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker. Antonin Artaud -- French poet, essayist, actor and director -- was the leading playwright of the 'Theatre of Cruelty.' From the description of Le moine de M.G. Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud [manuscript], ca. 1931 / Jean Cocteau. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 318989605 French poet, novelist, playwright, and artist. From the description of Autograph letter signed :...

Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884

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Marie Taglioni (1804-1884) was a Swedish-born ballet dancer of the Romantic ballet era partially of Italian descent, a central figure in the history of European dance. She spent most of her life in the Austrian Empire and France. She was one of the most celebrated ballerinas of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet. She is credited with (though not confirmed as) being the...

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...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

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...

Léon Woizikowski

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Enrico Cecchetti

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Cyril Beaumont

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Ol´ga Stepanovna Khokhlova

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Maria Nikolaevna Kuznetsova-Benua

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Chanel, Coco, 1883-1971

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Serge Diaghilev

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Dmitriĭ Alekseevich Smirnov

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Alhambra Theatre

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Nijinsky, Waslaw, 1850-1950

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Boris Georgievich Romanov

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Waslaw Nijinsky

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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Benua

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Mathilda Kshessinskaia.

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Boris Kochno

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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...

Sokolova, Lydia, 1896-1974

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Lydia Sokolova (1896-1974) was born in Wanstead, as Hilda Tansley Munnings on 4 March 1896. She trained at the Stedman's Academy in London and with Anna Pavlova, Michael Mordkin and Pavlova’s great character dancer and pedagogue, Aleksander Shireyev. Later she studied with Enrico Cecchetti and Nicolas Legat. After touring in the USA with the All-Star Imperial Russian Ballet (1911-12) she danced in London and Europe with Theodore Kosloff’s Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1913 she joined ...

Troubridge, Una Vincenzo, Lady, 1887-1963

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Adolf Bolm

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Buckle, Richard.

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Vatslav Fomich Nizhinskiĭ

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Boris Romanoff

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Nicholson, ...

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Pavel Andreevich Gerdt

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Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meißen

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Nationality: German. From the description of Cup and Saucer [electronic resource] : one cup and one saucer. ca. 1715. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute). WorldCat record id: 222499520 From the description of Bowl, Swan Service [electronic resource]. ca. 1738. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute). WorldCat record id: 222516597 From the description of Cup and Saucer [electronic resource]. ca. 1760. (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute). WorldCat ...

Fokina, Vera Petrovna, 1886-1958

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Waslav Nijinsky

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Scheurich, Paul

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Tcherkas, Constantin, d. 1965

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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...

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...

Kremnev, Natasha

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Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924

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Russian artist. From the description of Léon Bakst autograph letter to unidentified recipient, 1922 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 528674978 Ballet, theater and opera designer, and artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) was born in Grodno, Russia and studied art in St. Petersburg and in Paris. Some of Bakst's best-known works were for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He died at his home in Paris. From the guide to the Leon Bakst designs, ca. 1911-1923, (The New...

Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Mordkin

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Lidiia Fedorovna Lopukhova

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Sergei Leonidovich Grigoriev

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Ol´ga Iosifovna Preobrazhenskaia

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Emiliĭ Al´bertovich Kuper

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Beaumont, Cyril William 1891-

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Epithet: FRSL, educationist and historian of classical ballet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001123.0x000039 ...

Woizikowski, Léon

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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 ...

John, ...

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Epithet: Saint, of Damascus British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000299.0x0003a4 Epithet: the Monk; of Add MS 18814 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000356.0x000104 Accession date: 1560 Places: Sweden Title: Prince of Sweden British Library Archives and Manus...

Stanislas Idzikowski.

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Diaghileff Russian Ballet.

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Freed of London (Firm)

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Anna Pavlova.

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Kremnev, Nikolai

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Bolm, Adolf, 1894-1951.

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Amata Grassi was born in New York on June 1, 1894. Originally named Anna Beatrice Koch she chose her stage name after her mother, Caroline Grasse (1837-1917). Amata Grassi began her dancing career with Anna Pavlova in 1917. In the following year, while touring in Buenos Aires, she met her future first husband, Chester Hale (Chamberlin). Soon after they left the famous dancer to form their own company. She also danced with the Adolph Bolm Ballet Intime and the Chicago Opera Co., toured in vaudevi...

Alexandra Vasil´evna Baldina

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Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931

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Ballerina. From the description of Anna Pavlova collection, 1909-[ongoing]. (Museum of Performance & Design). WorldCat record id: 430368594 Anna Pavlova was a Russian ballet dancer. Gabriel Astruc was a French producer, publisher, talent manager and founder of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Between 1907 and 1913 Astruc also handled a variety of theatrical business matters for Serge Diaghilev, including publicity, contract negotiations, financial backing, negotiations fo...

Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna

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Sergei Grigoriev

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Dmitrii Goratsievich

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Ronald Mahon

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Bakst, Léon, 1866-1924

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Russian artist. From the description of Léon Bakst autograph letter to unidentified recipient, 1922 June 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 528674978 Ballet, theater and opera designer, and artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) was born in Grodno, Russia and studied art in St. Petersburg and in Paris. Some of Bakst's best-known works were for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He died at his home in Paris. From the guide to the Leon Bakst designs, ca. 1911-1923, (The New...

Leon Vuichikovskii

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Rothschild, Howard D.

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Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and an art collector. From the description of Howard D. Rothschild papers, 1921-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612840274 Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and a major collector of art work related to Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes. His fascination with Ballets Russes began in 1915 when as a child he attended one of the company's performances in New York. Over the years he became a close friend and an anonymous ...

Maurice Ravel

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Leon Woizikowski

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Flora Revalles

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Karalli, Vera Alekseevna, 1889-1972

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Maria Kouznetzoff

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Sofia Vasil´evna Fedorova

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Aleksandr Akimovich Sanin

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Lydia Sokolova

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Olga Preobrajenska

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Croxton, Arthur

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Arthur, Stanley

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Blanche, Jacques-Émile, 1861-1942

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French Post-impressionist painter and author. From the description of Letter, 1927 Apr. 2. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84286742 French painter and art critic. From the description of Letters and manuscripts, 1886-1937. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81379815 ...

Egorova, Lubov Nikolaevna, 1880-1972

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Woizikowski, Leon

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Olga Picasso

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Aleksandr Alekseevich Gorskiĭ

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Hilda Munnings

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Spessivtzeva, Olga

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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 ...

Aleksandr Emel´ianovich Volinin

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Alexandre Benois

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Giuseppina de Maria Cecchetti

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Friends of Covent Garden

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Morris, William Beaumont

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Rambert, Marie

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Karsavina, Tamara

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