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Fanny Elssler As the Swiss Milkmaid Fanny Elssler as the Swiss milkmaid The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Guest, Ivor. 1973. Fanny Elssler as the Swiss milkmaid. Harvard Library Bulletin XXI (1), January 1973: 73-74. Citable link https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37364164 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA ·.·:_· ..... , ... ;... T · ... ·L.: ·.:: ·.·.: .· .... I_. I, I: Fanny Elssler as the Swiss Milkmaid Ivor Guest ARL AGnICOLA'sportrnit of l1anny Elssler in Das Scb-weizer .A1ilcb111ildcbenis n1ost surely the ,vork of an artist in love ,vith his subject. Indeed~ in I 83 1, \vhen it ,vas painted, the --..-- ,vholc of VicnnJ seemed to be in love ,vith the enchanting ballerina ,vho had been reared fron1 childhood on the stage of the ICarntnertortheate.r andt at the ngc of nvcnt)r-one, ,vas then on the threshold of in tcrna tion al f an1c~ Fanny had been destined for the ba)let, along ,vith her elder sisters Anna and Therese, fron1 early childhood, and had n1adc her first stage -appearance at rhc :age of seven. lier progress had been follo\ved by the Vi cnnesc ,vith propricta1y pride and affection, and one of the most distinguishedmen of the city, Friedrich von Gentz~ the celebrated publicist and 2n ln1pcrial Counscllor, . lu1.d,von her fricndsl1ip despite the difference in their ages. Their liaison ,vas to be shortlived, for Gentz died in 183 2, hut it ,vas to bring -a lasting benefit in the in- tellectual education ,vhich the young dancer gained from it. Bcfor~ his h calti 1 b cg2. n to fail, Gentz , va s 2 n nt ten tiv e escort to the 1ovcl y ballerina and more than once accompanieu her to the sn1dio of the port r~itis t t C::lr 1 Ag ri cola~ The ballet, Das Scb-weizerAfilcb111ridcl:Jen, had a particular sig- nificance in F ann)r Elsslees career in that it revealed for the first tin1c her outstanding dnnnatic tu l cnt. The ballet had originally been pro- duccd by J?ilippoTaglioni in ,Tienna in 1821, ro music by Adalhert Gyro,vetz, and Theodore Rozier, the daughter of Au1ner,. h-ad created the part of the n1iik.n1ui d. In tl1e f an1ous dance scene of the hal let~ the heroine, b elievin g herself to be alone 1 con£esses her l ovc before a statue of the )7 0ung count, ftnd fails to notice tha.t the .count himself has taken the scaruc's place. This sccnct beginning ,vith the girl's passiona tc declaration and culm inating in. her cn1barrassm en t at find- ing her secret revealed, , v as a grca t test of the d-a.nccrts intcrpreta ti ve po,vcrs, and Fanny· passed it ,vjth con1plete success ,vhcn she 1nadc her first appearance in the ballet on 8 October 18301 during a visit to 73 Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XXI, Number 1 (January 1973) 74 1-IarvardLibrary Bulletin Ber}in. Rahel von \ 1arnhagcn ,vas so entranced that she yvrote to her friend Genr-t:: ll u t yesterday - have you seen her J\1i!kn1 fl id? - the comp}ete Ven us rose from the ,vavcs+ She ,1.,as ::ipph1udcd Hke sonlc great singcr 1 step by step., nothing ,vas rn j sscd by the pub Uc. Gentz had not of course seen her h1ilkn1aid, for Vienna ,,ras not to see it until 4 F'ebruary·1 '83,. l~he ,riennese press ,.vas then unanimous in jrs acclaim. Until then Fanny· Elss-lerhad 1nade her 1nark prjncipally by the virtuosity of her dancing, but in this soubrcttc role she pro~ duced a. delightful character study~ full of roguishness~ grace~ and charn1. It \Vasa light role, but it ,vas to be the :firststep to,var<lsher great triu1nphs in Giselle, Es111era}da1 and Ct1ttrriurt~,vhich ,vere to estab}ish her as the acUTss~danccr of her gcneratjon. The role of the Sl\ ..jss n1iikmaidthus belongs to the early spring of l;anny E]ssler"'slong career, but during her hi~toric tour of the United States in 1840-42 it ,vas one of the ballets ,vith ,vhich she enchanted the ne,v ,vorld audiences.. At .one pcrfor1nunce, in Boston~ Ralph ,valdo En1erson and Iv!argaret Fuller ,vere caught in a spell of en- ch an trn en~· ''Ralph,,, , vhisp ercd JVlargaret Fu 11er, H rhi s is poetry. n "No,, 1\1arg~et/' rep1ied Erner.son~ completely carried a\vay, "'it is religjon.'' Albert Theeris 1njniature based on Agricola's painting no\v rests in the Harvard Thegtre Collection~ donated by l\1r. & 1\1rs. John H. B-.~ssellas a tdbutc to the ~ctiring curator, Helen 1). '''"ilhird. One cnn hnrdly in1agine a more approprjate gift for the occasion, for not only· is it in itself 11significant addition to the dance n1ater ial th at f or1ns ~uc;han in1portant section of the Collection) but \·vithits delicacy and h-aunting charn1 it is a n1ost fitting tribute to a curator ,vho has earned the respect of all the scholars ,vho have sought her aid., and to 111any .of them has hecon1e a personal friend. Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XXI, Number 1 (January 1973) CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE Ivon GUEST is nn Eng ]i ~h ]a,vycr and a d istin guishcd historian of the ni 11et ecn th- .cent ary ball et; of more than a dozen boo ls on the subject that he has ,vri ttc n i the most recent is Fanny Elssler.,,vhich ,vas published in 1970 by T. L. Black jn England and by the ,,.res1eynn Uni ven:;ity Press in the United States. I-I1::Lc1-,~E. I-IA\VOlfJ'H, A~~oi.:iateProfessor of English at the Uni,rersity of ''{ater- 100~ is the author of a number of articJcs on K-catsi including j~~merson's Kc~tst \\rhich appeared in the January 1971 issue of the I-IARVARD LIDRARY IlULLETJN, LEo l\l. KA1sER js Professor of ClassicalStudies at Loyola University of Chicago. AKIKO j\,iURA.~ATA has been a FcUo,v :in A1ncrican Studi-cs at Snlith Co1lcgci a Research Assistant at George ,vashington Universityj a Predoctoral Intern at the Smithsonian Institution,. and a 1~eac.hing Assistant at Harvard; her dissErtation at George \.\ 7nshington ( 197c) ,v:1s ''The Selected Letters of ]Jr .. ,~lil 1iam Sturgis Bigclo,v.'' STbPIIEN l\1. PoPPE.Lis a grmlua.tc student at I.Jarva rel, \\rhcrc he is ,yriting a dis- sertation on "Nationalism and Id en tit)'; Gennan Zionj s1nt 1 8 97-1 9 33 . ') FR1Tt", ll F.:DL1cn is the author or cd itor of a score of vo 1urn cs :1n d of numerous artic1cs, inc]uding contributions to several previous jssues of the I-IARYARD L1BRARY IluJ.T£TIN, his Steeped in Two Cultures:,A Selection of Essays,,vas published in 1971 by 1-Iarpcr & Ro\\r_ CoRRIGENDUl\1 In the October I 971 issue (XX: 4J 4 36 ''"Br-o,vniag's ~sic.:ilfanPastoral,/ ,i by John i\1aynard) 1 the orjginal rn::inuscript of Bro,vning~s '~Sici1innPastorati' should have been dcscriucd as a part of the An1y 1.,o,.,rcHCollcctiont ,vhich js no,v houstcl in a specjal roou1 in the Houghton Library. 112 Harvard University - Houghton Library / Harvard University. Harvard Library bulletin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library. Volume XXI, Number 1 (January 1973).
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