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Facts

Born June 23, 1810 • Vienna • Austria
Died November 27, 1884 (aged 74) • Vienna • Austria

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Fanny Elssler in La Chatte métamorphosée en femme, lithograph by M. Alophe, c. 1837
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Frederick Ashton (left) and Robert Helpmann rehearsing their roles as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella, 1965.
Sir Frederick Ashton
British choreographer
Rudolf Nureyev performing in Flower Festival at Genzano.
Rudolf Nureyev
Soviet-born dancer
Rasch, Albertina
Albertina Rasch
American dancer
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Egon Wellesz
Austrian composer and musicologist
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Auguste Vestris
French dancer
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Igor Youskevitch
American ballet dancer
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Yvonne Chouteau
American ballerina
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Martha Graham
Martha Graham
American dancer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Serge Diaghilev, c. 1916.
Serge Diaghilev
Russian ballet impresario
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Karen Kain
Canadian ballet dancer