Louis Duport

Louis-Antoine Duport (1781, Paris – 19 October 1853, Paris) was a French ballet dancer, ballet composer and ballet master.

Life

Born in Paris, Duport studied dance under Jean-François Coulon and began his career on the Boulevards and at the Ambigu-Comique. He then made his debut at the Opéra de Paris in 1800, quickly becoming its premier danseur, with rivalries with Auguste Vestris as a dancer and with Pierre Gardel as a choreographer. He unilaterally broke his contract in 1808 and left Paris for Saint Petersburg, via Vienna.[1]

At the Mariinsky Theatre, he danced in the ballets by Charles-Louis Didelot, in January 1812 he danced in Warsaw, before being made the head of a theatre in Naples and returning to Vienna as professor and director at the Theater am Kärntnertor. [2]From June to November 1837, he stayed in Warsaw with his Viennese student, prima ballerina Helene Schanzowsky, married name Grekowska.[3]<re> </ref>

After spending many seasons in Paris, Saint-Petersburg, Naples, London, Turin, Vienna and Warsaw, he returned to Paris in 1837 and retired from artistic activity. He died in Paris .[4]

Works
  • 1805: Acis et Galatée (Opéra de Paris)
  • 1806: Figaro, with Jean-Baptiste Blache (Opéra de Paris)
  • 1806: L'Hymen de Zéphyre (Opéra de Paris)
  • 1808: Figaro (Vienna)
  • 1808: Les Amours de Vénus et Adonis (Saint-Petersburg)
  • 1808: Le Barbier de Séville, after Jean-Baptiste Blache (Saint-Petersburg)
  • 1809: Le Jugement de Pâris, after Pierre Gardel (Saint-Petersburg)
  • 1810: Les Troubadours (Saint-Petersburg)
  • 1812: Narcisse amoureux de lui-même (Warsaw)
  • 1812: Zephyr (Vienna)
  • 1812: Die Spanische Abendunterhaltung (Vienna)
  • 1812: Der Blöde Ritter (Vienna)
  • 1813: Telemach auf der Insel Kalypso (Vienna)
  • 1813: Der Ländliche Tag (Vienna)
  • 1813: Die Maskerade (Vienna)
  • 1813: Acis und Galatea (Vienna)
  • 1813: Die Erziehung des Adonis (Vienna)
  • 1814: La Fille mal gardée, after Jean Dauberval (Vienna)
  • 1817: Le Virtu premiata (Naples)
  • 1819: Adolphe et Mathilde (London)
  • 1819: Les Six Ingénus (London)
  • 1819: La Rose (London)
  • 1831: L'Ottavino (Turin)
  • 1837: Rycerz i wieszczka / La Fée et le Chevalier, after Armand Vestris (Warsaw)
  • 1837: Mleczarka szwajcarska / La Laitière Suisse, after Filippo Taglioni (Warsaw)

References
  1. Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. Patricia Morrisroe "The Behind-the-Scenes Assist That Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen " New York Times December 8, 2020. access date March 12, 2022
  3. [https:// https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lesarchivesduspectacle.net%2F%3FIDX_Personne%3D174671] lesarchivesduspectacle
  4. deutsche-biographie
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