Katti Lanner
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Katharina Josefa Lanner known as Katti Lanner (14 September 1829 - 15 November 1908), Viennese ballet dancer and choreographer, was born at Vienna, Austria.
She was the daughter of Josef Lanner, the director of ballet music at the Court in Vienna. She studied at the Vienna Court Opera, becoming a pupil of Isidore Carey. She left Vienna in 1856 and worked in several German ballet companies, marrying Johann Alfred Geraldini, the director of the Viennese Ballet Company.
With this company, she toured Europe, Russia and the USA. She first played at Drury Lane, London in 1871, returning in 1875 where she took over the National Training School of Dancing, producing many ballets, pantomimes and trained a number of protégées for the stage.
She died at Clapham in 1908 and was buried with fellow dancer Guiseppe Venuto de Francesco at West Norwood Cemetery
[edit] External Links
- Newsletter 50 Friends of West Norwood Cemetery
- Katti Lanner Carte de visite photograph at Picture History
- J. Gilliland, Lanner, Katharina Josefa (1829–1908), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 (Subscription required)
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