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Marius Petipa

1818 - 1910

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Marius Ivanovich Petipa (Russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа; born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa; 11 March 1818 – 14 July [O.S. 1 July] 1910) was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. He is considered one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history. Petipa is noted for his long career as Premier maître de ballet (First Ballet Master) of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, making him Ballet Master and principal choreographer of the Imperial Ballet (today known as the Mariinsky Ballet), a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marius Petipa is the 10th most popular dancer (down from 9th in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from France (down from 542nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Dancer.

Marius Petipa is most famous for his choreography for the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty" and the ballet "Don Quixote."

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Marius Petipa ranks 10 out of 116. Before him are Anna Pavlova, Josephine Baker, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marie Taglioni, Maurice Béjart, and Pina Bausch. After him are Bobby Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, Maya Plisetskaya, Michel Fokine, and Jean-Georges Noverre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Marius Petipa ranks 10. Before him are Alexander II of Russia, Ignaz Semmelweis, Emily Brontë, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Gounod, and Jacob Burckhardt. After him are Lewis H. Morgan, Tewodros II, Hermann Kolbe, Rudolf von Jhering, Adolf Anderssen, and Sophie of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1910, Marius Petipa ranks 16. Before him are Nadar, O. Henry, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Mily Balakirev, Chulalongkorn, and Johann Gottfried Galle. After him are Luigi Lucheni, Léon Walras, An Jung-geun, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pauline Viardot, and Huo Yuanjia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marius Petipa ranks 576 out of 6,770. Before him are Theuderic I (485), Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Richard Clayderman (1953), Marcel Marceau (1923), Hippolyte Taine (1828), and Claude Louis Berthollet (1748). After him are René Guénon (1886), Ambroise Paré (1510), Isabelle Adjani (1955), France Gall (1947), Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), and Carlos Gardel (1890).

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Among DANCERS In France

Among dancers born in France, Marius Petipa ranks 2. Before him are Maurice Béjart (1927). After him are Jean-Georges Noverre (1727), Jules Perrot (1810), Liane de Pougy (1869), Pierre Beauchamp (1631), La Goulue (1866), Roland Petit (1924), Zizi Jeanmaire (1924), Arthur Saint-Léon (1821), Jean Coralli (1779), and Micheline Bernardini (1927).

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