Claude Gardel was an 18th century German ballet master who served at the courts of Württemberg, Mannheim, and Nancy.
Claude Gardel | |
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| Born | Claude Gardel |
| Died | 1774 |
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| Children | Maximilien Gardel Pierre Gardel |
Early life
editClaude Gardel was born in the 18th century.
His wife, Jeanne-Louise Cahart Darthenay, gave birth to their first son, Maximilien, in Mannheim on 18 December 1741.[1]
Entertainment life
editAt his son's birth, Claude was employed in the lyric troupe of the Elector Palatine's court in Mannheim, known for its support of the arts.[2] In the 1740s, the city of Mannheim became a thriving center for ballet and opera under the patronage of Charles Theodore.[3] Gardel briefly assisted the Italian ballet master Sébastien Scio during his tenure.[4] At the 1742 wedding of Charles Theodore and the inauguration of the new opera house, Carlo Grua's Meride included entr'acte ballets by Scio and Gardel.[5]
Over the course of his career, he served as ballet master at the courts of Württemberg and Mannheim in Germany, as well as in Nancy in France.[6]
After working alongside the Mannheim Court Orchestra, Claude Gardel held the position of a paid dance master in the city of Nancy.[7] During this period, Gardel served as the ballet master to King Stanislas of Poland, known formally as Stanisław Leszczyński.[8] Nancy, the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, had been granted to Poland's King Stanisław Leszczyński by King Louis XV as part of a diplomatic arrangement.
His second son, Pierre Gardel, was born during his tenure in Nancy in 1754.[8] Gardel received a call to Paris and joined the Opéra de Paris in 1760 after leaving the Court of Lorraine.[9] His children would later go on to have successful careers as dancers and choreographers at the Opéra de Paris.[6] Maximilien, his son, passed away in 1787, and Pierre died in 1840, both in Paris, France.[10]
Death
editReferences
edit- ^ Noverre, J. G., Levinson, A. (1927). Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets: précédés d'une vie de l'auteur par André Levinson, avec un portrait gravé par Georges Gorvel.... France: La Tourelle.
- ^ Guest, I. (1996). The ballet of the Enlightenment : the establishment of the ballet d'action in France, 1770-1793. London: Dance Books.
- ^ Books Received. (1997). Dance Chronicle, 20(1), 111–115. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1567967
- ^ Winter, M. H. (1975). The Pre-Romantic Ballet. United States: Dance Horizons.
- ^ Ballet Music from the Mannheim Court: Le rendes-vous, ballet de chasse / Christian Cannabich ; Le rendez-vous de chasse, ou Les vendanges interrompues par les chasseurs / Georg Joseph Vogler. (1996). United States: A-R Editions.
- ^ a b c Highfill, P. H., Burnim, K. A., Langhans, E. A. (1978). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. United States: Southern Illinois University Press.
- ^ Inventaire-Sommaire des Archives Départementales Antérieures a 1790: Meurthe-et-Moselle / rédigé par Henri Lepage. .... (1883). (n.p.): N. Collin.
- ^ a b Le Carnet historique & littéraire. (1901). France: Aux bureau de la Revue.
- ^ Amanton, C. N. (1835). Notice sur Madame Gardel. France: Imprimerie de Frantin.
- ^ Thompson, O. (1975). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. United States: Dodd, Mead.