Jean-Baptiste To malt
Jean-Baptiste Malter is a Danseur and Maître to dance born with Bordeaux the November 6th 1701 under the name of Aubin-Jean-Michel Malter , dead in 1746.
Wire Jean-Nicolas To malt, known as of Saint-Aubin, and Madeleine Gosselin, it is related with the Famille To malt, which gave to the Opéra of Paris several famous Danseur S. It will be made call sometimes Jean-Baptiste , sometimes Jean-Nicolas .
Its childhood appears to proceed in Bordeaux, where he learns the trades from the dance with his father, who had been received there in the brotherhood of the internal caliper gauge on December 29th 1710. The June 19th 1725, it marries with Marseilles a young dancer Toulouse, Catherine Dussoye, known as Labbé.
The couple exerts its art with Tours in 1726, with Grenoble in 1729, with Rouen in 1732, then with Brussels in 1733, on the way for London.
In company of Marie Room, Jean-Baptiste appears for the first time with the Theater of the Covent Garden on November 8th, 1733. The celebrity is quickly acquired and To malt will form part, with his wife, of the troop of French actors raised by Francisque for the season 1734-35 of the Haymarket. The couple will thus make many outward journeys and returns between London and Paris, since it is Jean-Baptiste Malter, the cousin of the Malter brothers, who will begin with the Opéra from Paris in 1734 and will be called “the English” or “Panties”.
His/her cousins, known as “the Devil” and “the Bird”, had entered to the same theater, respectively in 1714 and 1722.
Noverre, in the sixth of its Letters on arts imitateurs (Paris 1807), written about Jean-Baptiste To malt: “ He was always poor dancer, but he made some pupils, and was carried to the dignity of ballet master; as at that time a ballet master étoit nothing less than clever, and than it écartoit not of the old headings, Malter fills its place with wonder ”.
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