Ferdinand Hérold
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Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, better known as Ferdinand Hérold, was a French composer. He was celebrated in his lifetime for his operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote balle
Hérold, engraving after Louis Dupré
The composer's birthplace, in the Paris street now named after him
Hérold in 1813: medallion by his fellow student David d'Angers
La Clochette, an early operatic success for Hérold, 1817
La fille mal gardée
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La fille mal gardée is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1765 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère. The ballet was originally choreog
Ferdinand Hérold
…operas, of which he composed more than twenty, but he also wrote ballet music, works for piano and choral pieces. He is best known today for the ballet La Fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa. Born in Paris to a musical family, Hérold trained at the Paris Conservatoire and won France's premier musical…
Nadia Nerina (as Lise) and David Blair (as Colas) in the Pas de ruban from the premiere of Frederick Ashton's version, London, 1960
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's painting Le reprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère
Announcement for the premiere of La fille mal gardée at the Pantheon, London, 1791
Mme. Théodore Dauberval, creator of the role of Lise; Paris, 1761