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The great artists' generation of 1805, which includes Hans Christian Andersen, August Bournonville, and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, represents the three leading artists of 19th-century Danish literature, choreography, music, and theater culture. The poet, the composer, and the ballet-master collaborated closely on a series of plays, operas, and ballets. The close human and professional relationship that existed among them is particularly evident in their correspondence, which spanned nearly five decades.
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August Bournonville's towering achievement as ballet-theorist is his three-volume treatise 'Etudes Choregraphiques', written between 1848 and 1861 and published in 2005 for the first time in its entirety in the original French as well as translations into English and Italian. Bournonville's writings on ballet began when he retired from the stage in 1848, after which he dedicated his intellect and energy to choreography and to reflecting on his own art form and its aesthetic and philosophical aspects.
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Painting and sculpture were a source of inspiration on the same level as music and literature for ballet-master August Bournonville, who possessed a great knowledge of the arts from the distant past to his own day. A discussion on the inspiration and motivation Bournonville reaped from static pictorial art for dynamic dance expression focuses on his 1845 ballet 'Raphael', which clearly demonstrates that he took visual art as an underlying structure and a tool for the audience.
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