Timothy Byram Wigfield - Prelude Fugue and Chaconne

ANGOLINI (Angiolini) Domenico Maria Gasparo (pseudo - Angelo Gasparini, Gasparini) (9 II 1731, Florence - 5 II 1803, Milan) - Italian. ballet dancer, librettist, choreographer and composer. From 1748 he acted as a dancer in Italy, Germany, Austria. In 1757 he began to stage ballets in Turin. From 1758 he worked in Vienna, where he studied with the Austrians. choreographer F. Hilferding. One of the founders of effective ballet. In the preface to the ballet programs, A. , relying on the aesthetics of D. Didro and J. Zh. Rousseau, preferred expressive pantomime over the meaningless “figured dance”. A. divided ballet genres into four groups: grotesque, comic, semi-characteristic and high. The choreographer assigned the most important place to music, believing that it “is a poetry of pantomime ballets”. In 1761 post. in Vienna, the ballet "Don Giovanni" by Gluck to the libre. R. Calzabigi. BUT. created new for muses. theater catcher.