Cesare Pugni, Marius Petipa and 19th-century ballet music

Musical Times | July 1, 2006| | Copyright

THE MANY PETITS MAÎTRES who furnished 19th-century ballet masters with scores to order, or cobbled up gallimaufries from whatever melodic shreds and patches came to hand, represent a demi-monde from which many lovers of serious music recoil with boredom or distaste. Three figures stand out in this melee of the obscure and the trivial, not so much because their productions were better than average, but because they were set by a genius - Marius Petipa - whose choreography has preserved them from oblivion in a way that bears comparison with, though it differs from, The Dunciad's pickling of ...

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