Frederick Ashton (1904 - 1988)
英國芭蕾出色編舞家,1906年9月17日生於厄瓜多爾的瓜亞基爾。1935年任維克.威爾斯芭蕾舞團首席編舞。
1952年起,任薩德勒斯威爾斯芭蕾舞團和英國皇家芭蕾舞團的編舞,並曾先後在蒙特卡洛俄羅斯芭蕾舞團、紐約市芭蕾舞團、丹麥皇家芭蕾舞團和米蘭拉斯卡拉劇院芭蕾舞團等著名芭蕾舞團擔任客席編導。
Frederick Ashton對音樂及古典舞蹈都有深湛的理解,善於把前人的創造和成就提高到更高的境界。他的作品《門面》、《鄉村一月》(1931)、《瑪格麗特和阿芒》(1863)和《鄉村月月》(1976)等,線條清晰,層次分明,突破了古典芭蕾舞程式的框框,達到更完美的地步,使劇情、人物性格,舞蹈和音樂更加和諧統一。他的另一個特點是根據不同演員的個性編排舞劇,充分發揮他們的才能,培育出一大批出色的芭蕾舞演員。鑒於他對英國芭蕾藝術發展的卓越貢獻,英國政府封他為爵士。
以下為Frederick Ashton編舞的作品︰
1926 - A Tragedy of Fashion (music by Eugene Goossens, arranged by Ernest Irving)
1927 - Various dances for a Purcell Opera Society production of The Fairy-Queen: (music by Henry Purcell)
1927 - Pas de deux (music by Fritz Kreisler)
1927 - Suite de danses (music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
1927 - Argentine Dance (music by Artello)
1928 - Nymphs and Shepherds (music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
1928 - Leda (music by Christoph Willibald Gluck)
1929 - Various dances for Jew Süss (incidental music arranged by Constant Lambert)
1930 - Capriol Suite (music by Peter Warlock)
1930 - Pomona (music by Constant Lambert)
1931 - Regatta (music by Gavin Gordon)
1931 - La Péri (music by Léo Delibes)
1931 - Façade (music by William Walton)
1931 - The Lady of Shalott (music by Jean Sibelius)
1932 - Foyer de danse (music by Lord Berners)
1933 - Les Rendezvous (music by Daniel Auber, arranged by Constant Lambert)
1933 - Pavane pour une enfante défunte (music by Maurice Ravel)
1934 - Mephisto Valse (music by Franz Liszt)
1935 - Le Baisier de la fée (music by Igor Stravinsky)
1936 - Apparitions (music by Franz Liszt, arranged by Constant Lambert and orchestrated by Gordon Jacob)
1936 - Nocturne (music by Frederick Delius)
1937 - Les Patineurs (music by Giacomo Meyerbeer, arranged by Constant Lambert)
1937 - A Wedding Bouquet (music by Lord Berners)
1938 - Horoscope (music by Constant Lambert)
1938 - The Judgement of Paris (music by Lennox Berkeley)
1939 - Cupid and Psyche (music by Lord Berners)
1940 - Dante Sonata (music by Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Constant Lambert)
1940 - The Wise Virgins (music by J S Bach, orchestrated by William Walton),
1941 - The Wanderer (music by Franz Schubert)
1943 - The Quest (music by William Walton)
1946 - Symphonic Variations (music by César Franck)
1946 - Les Sirènes (music by Lord Berners, orchestrated by Roy Douglas)
1946 - various dances for a Royal Opera production of The Fairy-Queen (music by Henry Purcell, arranged by Constant Lambert)
1947 - Valses nobles et sentimentales (music by Maurice Ravel)
1948 - Scènes de ballet (music by Igor Stravinsky)
1948 - Don Juan (music by Richard Strauss)
1948 - Cinderella (music by Sergei Prokofiev)
1949 - Le Rêve de Léonor (music by Benjamin Britten, orchestrated by Arthur Oldham)
1950 - Illuminations (music by Benjamin Britten)
1951 - Daphnis et Chloé (music by Maurice Ravel), created for Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes
1951 - Tiresias (music by Constant Lambert)
1952 - Sylvia (music by Léo Delibes)
1952 - Picnic at Tintagel (music by Arnold Bax)
1953 - Homage to the Queen (music by Malcolm Arnold)
1955 - Romeo and Juliet (music by Sergei Prokofiev)
1955 - Rinaldo and Armida (music by Malcolm Arnold)
1956 - La Peri (music by Paul Dukas)
1956 - Birthday Offering (music by Alexander Glazunov, arranged by Robert Irving)
1958 - Ondine (music by Hans Werner Henze), created for Dame Margot Fonteyn
1958 - La Valse (music by Maurice Ravel)
1960 - La fille mal gardée (music by Ferdinand Hérold - John Lanchbery
1961 - Persephone (music by Igor Stravinsky)
1963 - The Two Pigeons (music by André Messager, arranged by John Lanchbery)
Marguerite and Armand (music by Franz Liszt, orchestrated by Humphrey Searle). Soloists: Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev
1964 - The Dream after Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream (music by Felix Mendelssohn, some music arranged by John Lanchbery)
1965 - Monotones (music by Erik Satie, orchestrated by Claude Debussy)
1968 - Jazz Calendar (music by Richard Rodney Bennett)
1968 - Enigma Variations (music by Edward Elgar)
1970 - Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus) (music by Ludwig van Beethoven)
1970 - Lament of the Waves (music by Gérard Masson)
1972 - The Walk to the Paradise Garden (music by Frederick Delius)
1975 - Five Brahms Waltzes (music by Johannes Brahms)
1976 - A Month in the Country (music by Frédéric Chopin, arranged by John Lanchbery)
1977 - Voices of Spring (music by Johann Strauss II)
1980 - Rhapsody (music by Sergei Rachmaninoff)
1982 - Pas de légumes (music by Gioachino Rossini)
1985 - La chatte métamorphosée en femme (music by Jacques Offenbach)
Sir Frederick Ashton. Photo: Anthony Crickmay /
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