Louis Gallodier

Louis Gallodier (c.1734 – June 6 1803) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer who spent the majority of his career in Sweden, were he was to have a great importance for the development of the ballet in Sweden as master of the Royal Swedish Ballet.

Biography and career

Louis Gallodier was born in France. He was employed at the opera Opéra-Comique in Paris from 1756. As a dancer, he was a student of Jean-Georges Noverre. In 1758, he was hired as a member of the French theatre troup of the Swedish king, which performed in the theatre of Bollhuset in Stockholm and in the court theatres Drottningholm Palace Theatre and Confidencen at Ulriksdal Palace.

When the French troup was fired in 1771 by Gustav III of Sweden, who wanted to found a national stage with native actors, the dancers in the French troup were excluded from being fired; when the Swedish Royal Ballet was founded in 1773, several of them, such as the ballerina Ninon Dubois le Clerc, was to be a part of its first troup, and Gallodier was made its first ballet master. He also composed several dances to ballets and operas.

Louis Gallodier was in 1762-1784 married to Gasparine Becheroni, and from 1796 with Marie Louise Dulondel, whose parents were members of the French troup.

Works

* Sylvie, opéra de Pierre Montan Berton (1774)
* Neptun och Amphitrite, opéra-ballet (1775)
* Æglé, opéra-ballet (1775)
* Adonis, opéra-ballet de Thomas Christian Walter (1776)
* Procris och Cephal, opéra de Lars Lalin (1778)
* Zemire och Azor, comédie-ballet d'André Grétry (1778)
* Arsène, féerie-comédie de Monsigny (1779)
* Atys, opéra-ballet de Piccinni (1784)

See also

*Julie Alix de la Fay
*Giovanna Bassi

References

*http://runeberg.org/nfae/0418.html
*http://runeberg.org/nfbi/0338.html