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Biography of Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx
Name: Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx
Birth Date: c. 1535
Death Date: c. 1587
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: choreographer, violinist, dancing master
Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx
The sixteenth-century Italian violinist, dancing master, and choreographer Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx (ca 1535-1587) went to France from Savoy in about 1555 in the suite of the Marechal de Brissac, and was employed by several royal households. He was rapidly noted for his talent at organizing court entertainment, and was appointed valet de chambre to Catherine de Medici, wife of Henri II. He served her and her three sons for 30 years.Born Baldassare de Belgiojoso, he later became known as Beaujoyeulx or Beaujoyeux. It is thought that he may have collaborated in the mascarade Paradis d'Amour (1572). The following year he choreographed Le Ballet des Polonais to celebrate the election of Catherine's second son, the Duc d'Anjou, as King of Poland. Beaujoyeulx's most famous work is Le Ballet Comique de la Reine, which Queen Louise discussed with him personally beforehand. It was produced at the Louvre in Paris in 1581. He too was responsible for …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…verse, and dance was generally acknowledged to be a new invention, one in which the Academy's aim to achieve a unity of the arts was fully realized. Moreover, this collaboration of poets, composers, and scenic designers under his overall direction marks the central importance of the choreographer in sixteenth-century French court ballet. Beaujoyeulx retired in 1584 and died in Paris around 1587. Further Reading Anthony, J.R., French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau, revised edition, London, 1973.Kirstein, Lincoln, Dance: A Short History of Classic Theatrical Dancing, New York, 1935.Kirstein, Lincoln, Movement and Metaphor: Four Centuries of Ballet, New York, 1970.Lacroix, P., Ballets et Mascarades de Cour de Henri II a Louis XIV, vol. 1, Geneva, 1868.McGowan, Margaret M., L'Art du Ballet de Cour en France 1581-1643, Paris, 1963.Prunieres, H., Le Ballet de Cour en France, Paris, 1914.Yates, Frances, The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century, 1947.Musica Disciplina, vol. 1, no. 2, 1946.York Dance Review, Spring 1976.
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