The Malter, Malterre or Maltaire family was a dynasty of French dancers and choreographers, from which came several members of the 18th century
Académie royale de danse
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. It was a large family and it can often be difficult to identify its members with certainty, though the relationships given below are attested by contemporary documents:
* René Malter,
dance master
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Overview
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, member of the Académie royale de danse
* Jean-Pierre Malter (died 1730), dance master, member of the Académie royale de danse
* Claude Malter, dance master in Paris, brother of the above
* François-Antoine Malter (167?–1761), dance master, member of the Académie royale de danse, brother of the two above
** René Malter (1695–1775), member and darling of the Académie royale de danse, son of François-Antoine
** François-Louis Malter (1699–1788), dancer in the ballets du Roi, member of the Académie royale de danse, son of François-Antoine
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Jean-Baptiste Malter
Jean-Baptiste Malter (6 November 1701 – 1746) was a French dancer and dance master, known under the names Aubin-Jean-Michel Malter, Jean-Baptiste or Jean-Nicolas. He was the son of Jean-Nicolas Malter, known as de Saint-Aubin, and of Madeleine ...
(1701–1746), member of the Académie royale de danse, notably danced in Grenoble, Lyon and London.
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François Duval dit Malter (born 1743),
ballet master of the
Opéra
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, son of Antoine Duval (dance master) and of Henriette Brigitte Malter, and nephew of the above
*
Élisabeth Malter, dancer and ballet mistress
* Jean-François Malter, dancer in the French provinces
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Jean Malter dit Hamoir (died 1805), ballet master of the
Théâtre des Variétés-Amusantes
The Théâtre des Variétés-Amusantes was a theatre company in Paris.
History
In 1778, Louis Lécluse (or Lécluze), a former actor at the Opéra-Comique turned dentist, opened a theatre at foire Saint-Laurent, which shortly afterwards he trans ...
from 1779 to 1781
* Pierre-Conrad Malter, ballet master at the
Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique
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in 1788.
Other sources
Jean-Georges Noverre
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, ''Lettres sur la danse'', 1760. indicate that the René Malter named above was the father of three dancers of the Académie royale de danse :
* François-Antoine the elder, nicknamed "la Petite Culotte", entered in 1714, premier danseur comique of the Opéra in 1720
* François-Louis the younger, nicknamed "the Devil"
* Jean-Baptiste, known as Malter III, nicknamed "the Bird" or "the Englishman".
Notes
Bibliography
* Philippe Le Moal (ed.), ''Dictionnaire de la Danse'', Paris, Larousse, 1999 .
* Eugène Giraudet, ''Traité de la danse'', Paris, published by the author, 1890.
* Auguste-Alexis Baron, ''Lettres et entretiens sur la danse ancienne, moderne, religieuse, civile, et théâtrale'', Paris, Dondey-Dupré, 1824 (2nd edition, 1825, was entitled ''Lettres à Sophie sur la danse'').
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French families