Cesare Pugni

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a virtuoso violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Cesare Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre in London (1843-1850), and as Ballet Composer of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and to the Court of His Imperial Majesty in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1850-1870). Pugni was among the first composers of ballet music to employ the technique of leitmotif, which he utilized for his score for the ballet Elerz e Zulmida in 1826. Cesare Pugni is the most prolific composer of the genre of ballet music that has ever lived by the end of his life he had composed close to 100 known original scores for the ballet and adapted and/or supplemented many other works ny other composers. He composed a myriad of incidental dances such asdivertissements and variations, many of which were added to countless other works.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130245023
• ISBN-10: 6130245025
• Artikelnr.: 28045655