Louis Frossard was an 18th-century French dancer who conducted part of his career in Sweden. A dancer at the Comédie Italienne of Paris in 1757-1758, he stayed in Vienna from 1759 to 1761 and performed particularly in

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and

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. Back to the Comédie Italienne in 1761–1762, he was hired by the

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in Brussels, with his wife

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, a relative of the Malter dancers. Called to the court of Sweden, he was

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of the

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directed by

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until 1772. After he returned to the Théâtre-Italien of Paris as ballet master, he was recalled to Stockholm the following year and remained there until 1776.

Charles-Louis Didelot Charles-Louis Didelot (28 March 1767, Stockholm - 7 November 1837, Kiev) was a French dancer, the creator of the ballet shoes and a choreographer. The son of Charles Didelot, the dance-master of the King of Sweden, he studied dance with his fath ...

was one of his pupils. Back in France, Frossard and his wife settled in Lyon, where they led a troupe of children from 1782 to 1785. Indebted from his undertaking, Frossard returned to the Comédie Italienne and ended there his career about 1791. He died in Paris 29 January 1807. His father Edme Frossard, also a dancer, died in Stockholm in October 1769.

References

* Ralf, Klas: ''Operan 200 år. Jubelboken.'' Prisma (1973) * Heed, Sven Åke: Ny svensk teaterhistoria. Teater före 1800
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* Forser, Tomas & Heed, Sven Åke (red.), Ny svensk teaterhistoria. 1, Teater före 1800, Gidlund, Hedemora, 2007 * Jonsson, Leif & Ivarsdotter, Anna (red.), Musiken i Sverige. 2, Frihetstid och gustaviansk tid 1720-1810, Fischer, Stockholm, 1993 (Music in Sweden. The age of Liberty and the Gustavian age 1720–1810) * Oscar Levertin: Teater och drama under Gustaf III, Albert Bonniers förlag, Stockholm, Fjärde Upplagan (1920). Teater och drama under Gustaf III' 18th-century French dancers French ballet masters 1807 deaths {{ballet-bio-stub