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Title

Balletto per S.A.R. Il Sig. Principe di Galles / composto dal Sig. Bortolo Ganasetti.... ; posto in carta da me' Antonio Evangelista Maestro di Ballo.

Author

Ganassetti, Bortolo.

Publication

Bologna, 1729.

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Details

Additional Authors

Evangelista, Antonio.

Description

[ii], 7 p.; 22 cm. +

Donor/Sponsor

Cia Fornaroli Collection.

Subjects

• Baroque dancing
• Dance notation > Italy > Early works to 1800
• Dance notation, Works in > Feuillet

Note

• Handwritten on preliminary leaf by a previous owner: Antonio Evangelista, maestro di ballo. Balletto per la S.A.R. il Principe di Galles, composto da Bortolo Ganasetti, Bologna, 1729.
• Dance notation (Feuillet system) for one couple. Includes one line of music at the top of each page. Passapied p. 1-4; bouree p. 5-7.

Source (note)

• Walter Toscanini.

Biography (note)

• Bortolo Ganassetti also created dances in Bologna,1728, for Teodoro: dramma per musica; he is listed in that libretto as "servitore di S.A.R. principe di Gales."
• "A Venetian by birth, Bartolomeo Ganasetti (also known as Bartolo or Bortolo Ganassetti or Ganascetti) was active in Central Italy in the 1740s and 1750s, staging ballets in operas by important composers of the day such as Johann Adolf Hasse and Christoph Willibald Gluck, and later working as an impresario. Antonio Evangelista, who recorded the ballet, worked as a ballet master at the Collegio dei Nobili of Bologna between 1727 and 1734 and, like Ganasetti, was also Venetian."--

Provenance (note)

• Separated from the Walter Toscannini research collection, 2006, prior to the processing, on the occasion of the exhibition 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection, Oct. 17 2006-Jan. 20, 2007, Vincent Astor Gallery, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Call Number

*MGRN-Res. 08-2094

OCLC

311280391

Author

Ganassetti, Bortolo.

Title

Balletto per S.A.R. Il Sig. Principe di Galles / composto dal Sig. Bortolo Ganasetti.... ; posto in carta da me' Antonio Evangelista Maestro di Ballo.

Imprint

Bologna, 1729.

Provenance

Separated from the Walter Toscannini research collection, 2006, prior to the processing, on the occasion of the exhibition 500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection, Oct. 17 2006-Jan. 20, 2007, Vincent Astor Gallery, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Biography

Bortolo Ganassetti also created dances in Bologna,1728, for Teodoro: dramma per musica; he is listed in that libretto as "servitore di S.A.R. principe di Gales."

"A Venetian by birth, Bartolomeo Ganasetti (also known as Bartolo or Bortolo Ganassetti or Ganascetti) was active in Central Italy in the 1740s and 1750s, staging ballets in operas by important composers of the day such as Johann Adolf Hasse and Christoph Willibald Gluck, and later working as an impresario. Antonio Evangelista, who recorded the ballet, worked as a ballet master at the Collegio dei Nobili of Bologna between 1727 and 1734 and, like Ganasetti, was also Venetian."-- http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/italiandance/web2.html

Local Note

Additional photocopy shelved in *MGZR Baroque dancing [clippings].

Gloria Giordano presented a paper on this notation at the 2008 Rothenfels symposium.

Translation from exhibition web site: Ballet for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Composed by Sig. Bartolo Ganasetti in the year 1729 [and] Put on Paper by me, Antonio Evangelista, Ballet Master in Bologna.

Source

Gift; Walter Toscanini.

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Local Subject

Dance notation, Works in -- Feuillet.

Baroque dancing.

Added Author

Evangelista, Antonio.

Research Call Number

*MGRN-Res. 08-2094