One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of <em>Swan Lake</em> and <em>The Sleeping Beauty</em> draw large audiences to theatres and inspire new generations of dancers, as does <em>The Nutcracker</em> during the winter holidays. These are his best-known works, but others - <em>Don Quixote, La Bayad�re</em> - have also become popular, even canonical components of the classical repertoire, and together they have shaped the defining style of twentieth-century ballet. The first biography in English of this monumental figure of ballet history, <em>Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master</em> covers the choreographer's life and work in full within the context of remarkable historical and political surroundings.<br /><br />Over the course of ten well-researched chapters, Nadine Meisner explores Marius Petipa's life and legacy: th
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