Armand Vestris
Illustration — Armand Vestris in Macbeth, ballet of his composition on a music by Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples circa 1819. Auguste-Armand Vestris (1788 or 1786, 1787, or 1795 Paris – 17 May 1825, Vienna) was an early 19th-century French dancer and choreographer. The son of Auguste Vestris and (if the year of birth is 1795) dancer Anne-Catherine Augier, called Aimée (1777–1809), he studied dance with his grandfather Gaétan and made his first appearance on the stage of the Opéra de Paris at age four, alongside his father and his grandfather.
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Armand Vestris
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Illustration — Armand Vestris in Macbeth, ballet of his composition on a music by Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples circa 1819. Auguste-Armand Vestris (1788 or 1786, 1787, or 1795 Paris – 17 May 1825, Vienna) was an early 19th-century French dancer and choreographer. The son of Auguste Vestris and (if the year of birth is 1795) dancer Anne-Catherine Augier, called Aimée (1777–1809), he studied dance with his grandfather Gaétan and made his first appearance on the stage of the Opéra de Paris at age four, alongside his father and his grandfather.
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Born at Paris in 1786, died in Vienna in 1825.
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- 1.Philip H. Highfill e.a., A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 1660-1800, Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1993, vol. XV, pp. 149-154 ( ).
- 2.Horst Koegler (éd.), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977, ad nomen.
- 3.Vienna death register 1825
- 4.Domenico Rigotti, Ann Veronica Turnbull, Danza e balletto, Milan, Jaca Book, 1998, p. 402, article « Vestris Auguste Jean Marie Augustin detto Auguste » ( .
- 5.For questions related to the birth of Auguste-Armand, cf. Highfill, op. cit.. Surely, the year 1795 seems very implausible: Vestris should have settled in London aged fourteen (after several years of career already, far from his father and at the same time of the death of his mother) and become ballet master at the King's Theatre aged eighteen.
- 6.The Vestris Dynasty. Andros on Ballet.
- 7.New York Public Library. On Stage and in the Ballroom: Styles of Preromantic Ballet.
- 8.Memoirs of the life, public and private adventures of Mademe Vestris.
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