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MARIA See also: Italian See also: ballet dancer, daughter of Filippo See also: Taglioni (1777-1871), master of the ballet at See also: Stockholm, See also: Cassel, Vienna and 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 talent for dancing that she owed her success, for she possessed no remarkable See also: personal attraction
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Her first 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 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 Guillaume Tell, of the pas de fascination in See also: Meyer-See also: beer's Robert le Diable, and in La Fille du 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 Comte See also: Gilbert de Voisins, by whom she had two
See also: children
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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
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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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