Léon Minkus
Ludwig Minkus (
ru. Людвиг Минкус) aka Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (
March 23,
1826 —
December 7,
1917), was a composer of
ballet music and a
violin virtuoso. Born Aloisius Ludwig Minkus in
Velké Meziříčí (
German: Grossmeseritsch), near
Brno,
Moravia,
Austrian Empire, {today the
Czech Republic}.He is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as the First ballet composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, a post which he occupied from 1871 until its abolition in 1886. He continued composing music regularly for the Imperial Theatres until 1891, when he retired to
Vienna. Minkus wrote nearly all of his music for the works of the great ballet masters
Arthur Saint-Léon and
Marius Petipa, the most celebrated being
La Source (1866, composed jointly with
Léo Delibes),
Don Quixote (1869); and
La Bayadère (1877).
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