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🎀 Cute Composer Series: French ballet composers ✨🎶
🎹 Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist, and conductor who lived from 1875–1937 🕰️. In the 1920s and 30s he was widely regarded as France's greatest living composer 🇫🇷🏆. Ravel's musical style is incredibly specific, blending modernism, baroqueness, neoclassicism, and jazz 🎷✨. His ballet Daphnis et Chloé (1912) is his longest work ‼️🎶 — depicting the Ancient Greek love story by the writer Longus 🏛️💕.🌹
Adolphe Adam was a French composer, teacher, and music critic of the 19th century 📜, known for both his ballets and operas 🎭. His most famous ballet, Giselle, is considered a masterwork in the classical ballet canon 👑🩰. In his light, Romantic style, he tells the story of Giselle, who falls in love with a disguised nobleman 💔 and ultimately dies of heartbreak when his identity is exposed 😢.
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57
Benjamin Millepied: Choreographer
Aurélie Dupont: Principal dancer (Chloé)
Hervé Moreau: Principal dancer (Daphnis)
Eleonora Abbagnato: Principal dancer (Lycénion)
Marc Moreau: First soloist (Dorcon)
François Alu: First soloist (Bryaxis)
Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris
Brigitte Lefèvre: Dance Director
Chœur de l’Opéra national de Paris
Alessandro di Stefano: Chorus director
Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
Philippe Jordan: Music director
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4p4ZasfcS-M&ra=m
Adam:
Dutch National Ballet production, directed by Rachel Beaujean and Ricardo Bustamante
choreography Marius Petipa, Jean Coralli, and Jules Perrot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYyUqbI-G4&ra=m
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🎀 Cute Composer Series: French Ballet Composers ✨
🎹 Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) 🇫🇷 blended modernism, neoclassicism & jazz into a style uniquely his own. His ballet Daphnis et Chloé (1912) depicts an Ancient Greek love story 🏛️💕.
🌹 Adolphe Adam brought Romantic drama to the ballet stage 🩰. His masterwork Giselle follows a heartbroken young woman who dies when her lover's true identity is revealed 💔😢.
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