MINKUS DON QUIXOTE BALLET MISTY COPELAND 15 1997 VOB

LUDWIG MINKUS Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (18261917) was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher. Minkus is most noted for the music he composed while serving as Ballet Composer of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia, where he wrote for the original works and revivals of the renowned Ballet Masters Arthur SaintLéon and Marius Petipa. Among the composer s most celebrated compositions for these Ballet Masters were La Source (1866; composed jointly with Léo Delib