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MARIA TAGLIONI (1804-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 356 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . She was trained by her See also:father, who is said to have been pitilessly severe . 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 . 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 . Her'success was immediate, and was repeated in the See also:chief towns of See also:Germany . 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 . 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 . 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 . In 1832 she married See also:Comte See also:Gilbert de Voisins, by whom she had two See also:children . Losing her savings in See also:speculation, she afterwards supported herself in See also:London as a teacher of deportment, especially in connexion with the ceremony of presentation at See also:court . During the last two years of her See also:life she lived with her son at See also:Marseilles, where she died on the 23rd of April 1884 .

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