Angiolo Vestris was a French choreographer, born in 1730 in Florence, who died in 1809.
Biography
Angiolo Maria Gasparo Vestris (19 November 1730, Florence – 10 June 1809, Paris) was a Franco-Italian ballet dancer.
The younger brother of Gaétan Vestris and Thérèse Vestris, he studied dance with Louis Dupré and became a soloist of the Opéra de Paris in 1753. He then danced at Stuttgart under the direction of Noverre (also marrying Rose Gourgaud, daughter of the comic-actor Dugazon, in the town in 1766) before returning to Paris in 1767, where he was taken on as an actor at the Comédie-Italienne.
Contemporaries
Jean-Baptiste Pitrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Nicolas-Médard Audinot
French actor (1732-1801)
Jean-Claude Trial
composer (1732-1771)
Jean-Georges Noverre
French dancer (1727-1810)
Antoine Pitrot
French ballet dancer and choreographer
Pierre Montan Berton
French composer and conductor
Jean-Benjamin de La Borde
French composer, patron, writer and fermier général (1734–1794)
Jean-Baptiste Hus
French dancer and ballet master
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