Talk:Cesare Pugni

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Contents 1 Finished! 2 Rmrfstar's edit 3 Regarding Pugni's Marriage 4 New Edit

[edit] Finished!

After much editing, research, etc. I have finally finished this article - however it will take some time before I can compile a list of Pugni's works - if there is anyone who can help please send me a message!

--Mrlopez2681 01:47, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rmrfstar's edit

In the opening I changed orchestrator to composer - Pugni was the composer of these operas, not the orchestrator - orchestrator would would mean he was merely the creator of the orchestral parts. I made a few little changes, which had nothing to do with your edit. But other than that, Bravo Rmrfstar!

Regarding the 4 or so 'citation needed', heres is the source for all of the ones in the article so far -

Cesare Pugni by Ivor Guest. Published in Dance Gazette, February 1979, no.1, pp. 22-24

--Mrlopez2681 07:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I greatly appreciate your appreciation, and am glad that you found those errors of mine (when you wrote "scored", I was confused). I shall tonight continue the copyediting of this article and the others, and insert that source as an inline citation. -- Rmrfstar 12:28, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Pugni's Marriage

I forgot to mention that I have never been able to find any info on when the young Pugni was married and when his children were born.

He was with 3 woman, as is known, throughout his life (that is, at seperate times, not at once!!). His first wife, whom Pugni obviously married when he was a young man in Italy, is only referred to as Signora Pugni in any of my sources, Dates of a wedding, and even her name are not given. As he would do in his relationships later on in life, Pugni had a large brood with his first wife - however I have yet to encounter any information on any of Pugni's childen (he likely had about 30 of them) excerpt for a couple. It seems that when he relocated to London he might have abandoned his family, for he went alone, and not long after he married a woman named Marion Linton, with whom he had a large family. When he left to Russia he went alone again, perhaps abandoning this brood as well. In Russia he began a relationship with a Serf woman named Daria Petrovna, whom he never married, and had 8 childen, a few of which became ballet dancers.

Mrlopez2681 01:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Is there anyway we can put this into the article... and sourced? -- Rmrfstar 03:16, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Edit

Again, thank you Rmrfstar for you edits to the article

I do feel however that some of the headlines could be changed -

1. Failure in Paris. What was the failure? There is the matter between him and Bellini, but is that a failure?
2. Revival in London. What was the revival? No previous works of his were revived during his time in London...unless of course you mean the revival of his career. Maybe Success in London?
3. Decline in Russia. Pugni's first years in Russia were anything but a decline, and the four paragraphs of that section do not speak of a decline. However the headline of the next section, Later Life, definately describes a decline.
4. Legacy. I feel that this is perhaps a better headline for the The Music of Pugni section - perhaps Pugni's Music and Legacy, or something along those lines? The Legacy section merely speaks of his children and their offspring.

Now, is the re-arrangement of the photos, etc. a work in progress? I re-arranged them only slightly, as one of the photos (of Fanny Cerrito in "Catarina") was to close to the other, and was causing a large empty space. I do like that some of them are now on the right (I guess I went a little to "interior design" on the layout) but should we have all of them right aligned?

Regarding his wives, the only place I have ever seen this discussed is again Ivor Guest's 1979 article Cesare Pugni for Dance Gazette.

Now for some citations -

1. in the Revival in London section, quote ...at some point not long after this move to London, Pugni married his second wife Marion (or Mary Ann) Linton. I put this in myself.
2. in the Perrot section, quote - the public and critics marveled at how fresh and new both choreographically and musically each spectacle was. Perhaps for this a rewording is in order. This was more my own asessment after reading many enthusiatic reviews of the ballets Perrot and Pugni put on at Her Majesty's Theatre in the 1840s.
3. for the quote in Later Life, "I tearfully ask you to send some money; I am without a penny". The letter also included freshly composed sections for Petipa's upcoming ballet The Blue Dahlia. - Guest, Ivor Forbes (1981) "Letters from a Balletmaster - The Correspondence of Arthur Saint-Léon", Dance Horizons, pp. 140. By the way, I fixed this quote and changed penny to sou, which is the accurate quote.
4. for the other quote in Later Life, Pugni has nearly died. He was found in the woods 16 versts from... this is also "Letters from a Balletmaster - The Correspondence of Arthur Saint-Léon", pp. 111-112

I have a quistion about this -

“

"I tearfully ask you to send some money; I am without a sou". The letter also included freshly composed sections for Petipa's upcoming ballet The Blue Dahlia.

”

being that this not only contains a quote but also the statement wich follows it (which is relevant to the quote), should not the actual quote be in italics or something?

--Mrlopez2681 03:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)