Antoine de Beaulieu (died 1663) was a
French noble
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, dancer, and
ballet master of the Swedish court from 1637 to 1663 and is considered to have introduced ballet in
Sweden.
Antoine de Beaulieu was employed in
Sweden after a recommendation to the Queen Dowager,
Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg
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, by the French ambassador. Ballet was considered as a good exercise for boys of the nobility to move gracefully during riding and fencing. In 1638, Beaulieu performed a dramatic ballet with poems for
Queen Christina by the order of
Eleonora Catherine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. The participants consisted of boys and men of the nobility, among them
Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie and the future
Charles X Gustav of Sweden. He made about 20 ballets until 1654. At the coronation of Christina in 1651, he performed in a coronation ballet.
See also
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Anne Chabanceau de La Barre
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Antoine Bournonville
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Louis Gallodier
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References
* Sven Åke Heed: ''Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Teater före 1800'' Gidlunds förlag (2007)
* Leif Jonsson, Ann-Marie Nilsson, Greger Andersson: ''Musiken i Sverige. Från forntiden till stormaktstidens slut 1720'' ("Music in Sweden. From Antiquity to the end of the Great power era 1720")
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1663 deaths
Swedish male ballet dancers
French male ballet dancers
17th-century French people
17th-century Swedish people
17th-century ballet dancers
French ballet masters
Year of birth unknown
People of the Swedish Empire
Court of Christina, Queen of Sweden