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MARIA See also:TAGLIONI (1804-1884)
, See also:Italian See also:ballet dancer, daughter of Filippo See also:Taglioni (1777-1871), See also:master of the ballet at See also:Stockholm, See also:Cassel, See also:Vienna and See also:Warsaw, was See also:born at Stock-holm on the 23rd of See also:April 1804
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She was trained by her See also:father, who is said to have been pitilessly severe
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It was to his care and her own See also:special See also:talent for dancing that she owed her success, for she possessed no remarkable See also:personal attraction
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Her first See also:appearance was at Vienna on the loth of See also:June 1822, in a ballet of which her father was the author, La Reception d'une jeune nymphe d la tour de Terpsichore
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Her'success was immediate, and was repeated in the See also:chief towns of See also:Germany
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On the 23rd of See also:July 1827 she made her See also:Paris debut at the See also:Opera, in the Ballet de Sicilien, and aroused a furore of See also:enthusiasm
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Among her more remarkable performances were the dancing of the Tyrolienne in See also:Guillaume Tell, of the pas de See also:fascination in See also:Meyer-See also:beer's See also:Robert le Diable, and in La Fille du See also:Danube
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Al this See also:period the ballet was an important feature in opera, but with her retirement in 1847 the era of See also:grand ballets may be said to have closed
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In 1832 she married See also:Comte See also: |
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