"Which great composer's only ballets were 'The Creatures of Prometheus"" and “Ritterballet”?"
"movement entitled ""Prométhée enchaîné"" (Prometheus Bound). Beethoven composed the score to a ballet version of the myth titled ""The Creatures of Prometheus"" (1801). An adaptation of Goethe's poetic version of the myth was composed by Hugo Wolf, ""Prometheus"" (""Bedecke deinen Himmel, Zeus"", 1889), as part of his Goethe-lieder for voice and piano, later transcribed for orchestra and voice. An opera of the myth was composed by Carl Orff titled ""Prometheus"" (1968), using Aeschylus' Greek language ""Prometheia"". Prometheus In Greek mythology, Prometheus (; , , meaning ""fore-thinker"") is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation"
"stage Petipa's ""The Sleeping Beauty"", his definitive version of ""Giselle"", ""Coppélia"" (as danced by the Imperial Ballet), and ""The Nutcracker"" for the Vic-Wells Ballet of London (later the Royal Ballet) who still almost religiously perform many of these ballets with little changes from when they were first staged. It was through these revivals by Sergeyev in London with aid of these notations that the ballets of Petipa where first staged in the west, forming the nucleus of what is now known as the Classical Ballet repertory for not only the ballet of England but for the world. In 1969 the"
"The Magic Mirror (ballet) The Magic Mirror () is a ""ballet-féerie"" in four acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Arseny Koreshchenko. The libretto is based on the fairy tale ""Snow White"" by the Brothers Grimm and the poem ""The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights"" by Alexander Pushkin. The ballet was premièred on the at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. ""The Magic Mirror"" was the final ballet to be staged by Petipa and was probably his most controversial. Prince Serge Volkonsky commissioned Petipa to create the ballet in"
"Pointe. At the turn-of-the-Twentieth century, the Imperial Ballet began a project that notated much of its repertory in the Stepanov method of choreographic notation. Most of the notated choreographies were recorded while dancers were being taken through rehearsals. After the revolution of 1917, this collection of notation was taken out of Russia by the Imperial Ballet's former ""régisseur"" Nicholas Sergeyev, who utilized these documents to stage such works as ""The Nutcracker"", ""The Sleeping Beauty"" and ""Swan Lake"", as well as Marius Petipa's definitive versions of ""Giselle"" and of ""Coppélia"" for the Paris Opéra Ballet and the Vic-Wells Ballet of London"
"the Ballets Russes. For his new productions, Diaghilev commissioned the foremost composers of the 20th century, including: Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, Respighi, Stravinsky, de Falla, and Strauss. He was also responsible for commissioning the first two significant British-composed ballets: ""Romeo and Juliet"" (composed in 1925 by nineteen-year-old Constant Lambert) and ""The Triumph of Neptune"" (composed in 1926 by Lord Berners). The impresario also engaged conductors who were or became eminent in their field during the 20th century, including Pierre Monteux (1911–16 and 1924), Ernest Ansermet (1915–23), Edward Clark (1919–20) and Roger Désormière (1925–29). Diaghilev hired the young Stravinsky"
"Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet), ""Cinderella"" (London Festival Ballet), ""Swan Lake"" (English National Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet), ""The Tales of Hoffmann"" (Scottish Ballet), ""The Nutcracker"" (Rome Opera Ballet, English National Ballet), ""Anna Karenina"", ""Madame Butterfly"" and ""La Bayadère"" (Australian Ballet), ""La Sylphide"" (Rome Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet), ""Theme and Variations"" and ""Coppélia"" (Birmingham Royal Ballet) and more than a dozen productions of ""Giselle"". His designs for MacMillan's ""Manon"" have been used by the Mariinsky Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Australian Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and Houston Ballet. He designed over a dozen productions for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, including Robert"
"La Perle (ballet) La Perle (en. ""The Pearl"") (ru. «Жемчужина» or «Прелестная жемчужина»; ""Zhemchuzhina"" or ""Prelestnaya Zhemchuzhina"") (en. ""Pearl"" or ""Pretty Pearl"") is a ""ballet-divertissement"" in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. ""La Perle"" was created by Marius Petipa—the renowned ""Premier maître de ballet"" of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres—and the composer Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of ballet and Italian opera performances for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and director of music to the Imperial Ballet—as a lavish piece d'occasion for the gala given at the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in celebration"
"was ballet master in Vienna and collaborated with Beethoven on the ballet ""The Creatures of Prometheus"". He returned to Italy in 1804 and became the ballet master of ""La Scala"" ballet school in Milan. He is considered the father of a new kind of performance called """" where the pantomime served the dance and the ensembles were very significant. He died in Milan. Viganò's elder sister, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli was also a dancer and the librettist of Rossini's first opera ""Demetrio e Polibio"". Salvatore Viganò Salvatore Viganò (March 25, 1769 – August 10, 1821), was an Italian choreographer, dancer and composer."
"and ballet directly or indirectly inspired by the myth of Prometheus have included renderings by some of the major composers of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this tradition, the orchestral representation of the myth has received the most sustained attention of composers. These have included the symphonic poem by Franz Liszt titled ""Prometheus"" from 1850, among his other Symphonic Poems (No. 5, S.99). Alexander Scriabin composed """", Opus 60 (1910), also for orchestra. In the same year Gabriel Fauré composed his three-act opera ""Prométhée"" (1910). Charles-Valentin Alkan composed his ""Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges'"" (1847), with the 4th"
"11 February 1812 gave the Vienna premiere of Beethoven's fifth piano concerto (the ""Emperor""). His compositions between 1800 and 1802 were dominated by two large-scale orchestral works, although he continued to produce other important works such as the piano sonata Sonata quasi una fantasia known as the ""Moonlight Sonata"". In the spring of 1801 he completed ""The Creatures of Prometheus"", a ballet. The work received numerous performances in 1801 and 1802, and he rushed to publish a piano arrangement to capitalise on its early popularity. In the spring of 1802 he completed the Second Symphony, intended for performance at a"
"Tchaikovsky's ballet ""The Nutcracker"" (1892) is based on ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"", and the ballet ""Coppélia"", with music by Delibes, is based on two eerie Hoffmann stories. Hoffmann also influenced 19th-century musical opinion directly through his music criticism. His reviews of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (1808) and other important works set new literary standards for writing about music, and encouraged later writers to consider music as ""the most Romantic of all the arts."" Hoffmann's reviews were first collected for modern readers by Friedrich Schnapp, ed., in ""E.T.A. Hoffmann: Schriften zur Musik; Nachlese"" (1963)"
"Spartacus (ballet) Spartacus () is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record. Khachaturian composed Spartacus in 1954, and was awarded a Lenin Prize for the composition that same year. It was first staged, with choreography by Leonid Yakobson, in Leningrad 1956, but only with qualified success since Yakobson abandoned conventional ""pointe"" in his choreography. The ballet received its first staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1958, choreographed"
"with a usage of classical ballet vocabulary that seemed influenced by his Asian heritage. His vision was more ""symphonic"" in that he utilized numerous soloist dancers in a ballet rather than the traditional principal dancer/corps de ballet arrangement typical in classical choreography. For the Houston Ballet he created two new works (1979 & 1980) and for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater he created ""Spectrum"" (1981). American Ballet Theatre commissioned ""Configurations"" to be created for Mikhail Baryshnikov soon after. His only full-length work, ""Romeo and Juliet"", to Prokofiev's famous score, was created for the Boston Ballet in 1984. Goh maintained"
"and from Riccardo Drigo's memoirs. Divertissement-ballet in one act interpolation: """"La Perle jaune"" pas de deux for Mathilde Kschessinskaya and Nikolai Legat —"" La Perle (ballet) La Perle (en. ""The Pearl"") (ru. «Жемчужина» or «Прелестная жемчужина»; ""Zhemchuzhina"" or ""Prelestnaya Zhemchuzhina"") (en. ""Pearl"" or ""Pretty Pearl"") is a ""ballet-divertissement"" in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. ""La Perle"" was created by Marius Petipa—the renowned ""Premier maître de ballet"" of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres—and the composer Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of ballet and Italian opera performances for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and director"
"in composing one internationally acclaimed work in the last 30 years of his life, the ballet ""Spartacus"". According to James Bakst, what made Khachaturian unique among Soviet composers is ""the blending of national Armenian vocal and instrumental intonations with contemporary orchestral techniques"". Khachaturian's music is characterized by an active rhythmic development, which reaches either a mere repetition of the basic formula (ostinato) or ""a game of emphasis within this formula"". Khachaturian is best known internationally for his ballet music. His second ballet, ""Gayane"", was largely reworked from his first ballet, ""Happiness"". ""Spartacus"" became his most acclaimed work in the post-Stalin"
"Prometheus: The Poem of Fire Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910), is a symphonic work by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin for piano, orchestra, optional choir, and clavier à lumières or ""Chromola"" (a color organ invented by Preston Millar, in fact rarely featured in performances of the piece, including those during Scriabin's lifetime). ""Prometheus"" is only loosely based on the myth of Prometheus. A typical performance lasts about 20 minutes. The music is complex and somewhat dissonant, based almost entirely around various inversions and transpositions of Scriabin's matrix sonority: A D G C F B. Sabaneyev referred to"
"music by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fancy Free (ballet) choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein; and a new work) ""Peter and the Wolf"" (choreography by Michael Smuin, music by Sergei Prokofiev, opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) ""Giselle"" (music by Adolphe Adam) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Cinderella"" (music by Prokofiev) ""Director's Choice"" (Traveling Alone choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods; and a new work) ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) Ballet MasterWorks (includes Igor"
"the repertory of the Imperial Russian Ballet. To stage these ballets with her newly formed company, de Valois employed Nicholas Sergeyev, a former régisseur of the Imperial. He staged productions of Petipa's ""The Sleeping Beauty""; Petipa and Ivanov's ""Swan Lake"" and ""The Nutcracker""; Petipa and Cecchetti's production of ""Coppélia""; and Petipa's ""Giselle"". Created with the aid of choreographic notation written in St Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century, these works have been included in the repertoire of the Royal Ballet ever since. The company now uses Peter Wright's 1984 production of ""The Nutcracker"", which uses some of Sergeyev's"
"Scènes de ballet (Stravinsky) Scènes de Ballet is a suite of dance movements composed in 1944 by Igor Stravinsky. It was commissioned by Broadway producer Billy Rose for inclusion in the revue ""The Seven Lively Arts"" that opened at the Ziegfeld Theater on December 7, 1944. ""The Seven Lively Arts"" brought together a number of notable performers: Beatrice Lillie, Bert Lahr, Benny Goodman, and ""Doc"" Rockwell as well as showgirls - ""the prettiest around at the moment,"" according to ""The New York Times"" review. The solo dancers for the ""Scènes de Ballet"" were Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin (who was"
"increasingly frenetic variations ending with a powerful orchestral climax. It is identified in the ballet score by its almost equally well-known name, the ""Russian Sailor's Dance"". It is probably his best-known single piece, and is still heard at symphony concerts around the world, frequently as an encore. The ballet-pantomime ""Chrizis"" was revised just after ""The Red Poppy"", in the late 1920s, followed by the popular ballet ""Comedians"" after Lope de Vega (1931, later re-written and renamed ""The Daughter from Castile""). After 1917 Glière never visited the West as some other Soviet composers did. He gave concerts in Siberia and other"
"the company changed to Ballet Rambert , later Rambert Dance Company, and from 2014 just named Rambert, a contemporary dance company which tours internationally. It dates its birth to the first performance of Frederick Ashton's ""A Tragedy of Fashion"" (1926), making it the first ballet company in Britain. Ashley Dukes, Marie's husband, renovated a building and made it into Mercury Theatre, where the majority of Ballet Rambert's performance occurred. It was said that 'Notting Hill Gate, where the Mercury Theatre stood, was on the slopes of Olympus'. Ballet Rambert has performed such ballets as ""Coppelia"", as well as Balanchine's ""Night"
"The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / ""Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya"" ; ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"". Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete ""Nutcracker"" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around"
"Venus), Lyubov Roslavleva (as Flora), Alexei Bulgakov (as Jupiter), and Sergei Legat (as Adonis). There was only one full resumption of this ballet by choreographer Alexey Bogdanov. Les Aventures de Pélée Les Aventures de Pélée (""The Adventures of Peleus""; ) is a ballet in three acts and five scenes with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus, with additional music adapted from works by Léo Delibes. The libretto by Marius Petipa is derived from the Greek Myth concerning the Goddess Thetis and the circumstances surrounding her marriage, arranged by Jupiter (or Zeus), to the mortal Peleus. It was"
"1889 with the same cast. ""Principal Dancers -"" Varvara Nikitina (as the Butterfly), Pavel Gerdt (as the Phoenix Moth), Sergei Litavki (as the Grasshopper), Maria Anderson (as the Fly), Alexander Shiraev (as the Spider), and Sergei Legat (as the Nightingale). The Whims of the Butterfly The Whims of the Butterfly (also known as ""The Caprices of a Butterfly"", or ""Les Caprices du Papillon"") is a ballet in 1 act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem ""The Grasshopper Musician"" by Yakov Polonsky. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on"
"The Whims of the Butterfly The Whims of the Butterfly (also known as ""The Caprices of a Butterfly"", or ""Les Caprices du Papillon"") is a ballet in 1 act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem ""The Grasshopper Musician"" by Yakov Polonsky. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on June 5/17 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1889 for the Imperial court at the theatre of Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ballet was given a second premiere for the general public at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on October 25/November 6,"
"dramas for ballet. Galeotti's most lasting success, and the only work by him still commonly performed today, is ""Amors og Balletmesterens Luner"" (""The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master,"" 1786), which is the oldest European ballet still danced to its original choreography and music (by ); it has been staged more than 500 times. Vincenzo Galeotti Vincenzo Galeotti (5 March 1733 – 16 December 1816) was an Italian-born Danish dancer, choreographer and ballet master, who was influential as the director of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1775 until his death. Vincenzo Tomasselli was born in Florence. He studied medicine"
"and ""Christmas Oratorio"" (Part I – III premiered in 2007, the complete work will premiere on December 8, 2013), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ""Requiem"" (1991) and George Frideric Handel's ""Messiah"" (1999). In addition, various composers were commissioned to compose for John Neumeier's ballets. One of them is Alfred Schnittke, who contributed the music to ""Peer Gynt"" (1989). Lera Auerbach composed the music for ""Préludes CV"" (2003) and ""The Little Mermaid"" (2005). In addition, the company dances ballets based on world literature. John Neumeier created ""The Lady of the Camellias"" (1978) based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas and ""A Streetcar Named"
"Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace works based primarily on choreographic display and innovation). Following Radlov's acrimonious resignation from the"
"Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" and Strauss' ""Die Fledermaus"" as well as a concert dedicated to Vincenzo Bellini. Besides operas, he is also known for his conducting of the Russian ballet based on works by Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as German and Austrian ballet composers such as Ludwig Minkus and Charles Gounod. Later on, he became a conductor of the Coppélia ballet which was based by Léo Delibes work and was produced by Imperial Russian Ballet. Currently he has two CD recordings called ""Chorus of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow"" and the ""Soloists of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow""."
"Leonard Salzedo Leonard Salzedo (24 September 1921 – 6 May 2000) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish descent. Salzedo was born in London. He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, ""The Fugitive"", was commissioned. His most successful ballet was ""The Witch Boy"" based on the ‘Ballad of Barbara Allan’. He was musical director of the Ballet Rambert from 1967 to 1972 and principal conductor with the Scottish"
"became the director of the Zürich Ballet, and directed there for the next 6 years, before returning to Germany to become director of the Leipzig Ballet, where he was also chief choreographer. He remained in Leipzig from 1991 until his death. Among his most famous creations are Mozart's ""Great Mass"", ""Pax Questuosa"" by Udo Zimmermann, Berlioz's ""Symphonie fantastique"", ""The Red and the Black"" by Stendhal, and much else. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. He was also a founding member of the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig. List of Works from"
"period. These two compositions ""remain his most successful compositions"". According to Jonathan McCollum and Andy Nercessian, his music for these two ballets ""can safely be included among the best known pieces of classical music throughout the world, a fact that is vitalized by perception that these are perhaps the only works through that the world really knows Armenian music"". Ann Haskins of ""LA Weekly"" suggests that he has thus ""made an indelible mark on the world of ballet"". ""Spartacus"" was popularized when the ""Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia"" was used as the theme for a popular BBC drama series ""The"
"Hindemith extracted only those portions of the score which he felt would be most effective in the concert hall. Notes Sources Nobilissima Visione Nobilissima visione (""The Noblest Vision"") is a 50-minute ballet (or, more precisely, a ""dance legend"") in six scenes by Paul Hindemith, originally choreographed by Léonide Massine for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. The libretto by Hindemith and Massine depicts episodes from the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. The work was completed in February 1938 and premiered at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London on 21 July 1938, with sets and costumes by Pavel Tchelitchew and"