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Ludwig Minkus
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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Don Quixote -- Pas de Deux
- Don Quixote Ballet in Five Acts by Marius Petipa Piano Score
- Don Quixote
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Austria
- Active from
- 1826
- Active to
- 1917
Discography
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Ludwig Minkus aka Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (March 23, 1826 — December 7, 1917), was a composer of ballet music and a violin virtuoso. Born Aloisius Ludwig Minkus in Velké Meziříčí (German: Grossmeseritsch), near Brno, Moravia, Austrian Empire, {today the Czech Republic}. He is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as the First ballet composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a post which he occupied from 1871 until its abolition in 1886. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
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Key facts
- Born
- Aloysius Bernhard Philipp Minkus , ( 1826-03-23 ) 23 March 1826, Vienna , Austrian Empire
- Died
- 7 December 1917 (1917-12-07) (aged 91), Vienna, Austria-Hungary
- Occupations
- Composer violinist teacher
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ludwig
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austria–Hungary
- Place of birth
- Velké Meziříčí
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- instrumentalist
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Genre
- ballet
- Instrument
- violin
- Image
- Leon Minkus -photo by B. Braquehais -circa 1865.JPG
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- date of birth
- 1826-03-23
- date of death
- 1917-12-07
- Commons category
- Ludwig Minkus
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Ludwig Minkus
- P8168
- AB-115
- place of burial
- Döbling Cemetery
Sources (3)
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Ludwig Minkus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Ludwig Minkus (Russian: Людвиг Минкус, romanized: Lyudvig Minkus), also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (23 March 1826 – 7 December 1917), was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violinist and teacher of music.
Minkus is noted for the music he composed during his career in St. Petersburg, Russia. Beginning in 1871 Minkus served in the official post of Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a position he held until it was abolished upon his retirement in 1886. During his long career in St. Petersburg, Minkus composed for the original works and revivals staged by the ballet masters Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa. Among the composer's most celebrated compositions is his score for La source (1866; composed jointly with Léo Delibes), Don Quixote (1869); and La Bayadère (1877). Minkus composed many pieces for older works. The most well-known of Minkus's additional music is the Grand Pas classique and Mazurka des enfants composed for Petipa's 1881 revival of Paquita.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ludwig Minkus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.