Angiolo Maria Gasparo Vestris (19 November 1730, Florence

Florence

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 - 10 June 1809, Paris

Paris

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) was a Franco-Italian ballet dancer.

The younger brother of Gaëtan Vestris

Gaétan Vestris

Gaetano Apolline Baldassarre Vestris , French ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the opera in 1749....

, he studied dance with Louis Dupré

Louis Dupré

Louis Dupré was a French ballet dancer, ballet master and ballet teacher.-Life:Probably first dancing in child rôles under the name "petit Dupré", he made his official débuts at the Académie royale de musique in 1714 and became its ballet master in 1739. From 1725 to 1730, he regularly put on...

 and became a soloist of the Opéra de Paris in 1753. He then danced at Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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 under the direction of Noverre

Jean-Georges Noverre

Jean-Georges Noverre was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ballet d'action, a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century...

 (also marrying Rose Gourgaud

Rose Vestris

Françoise-Rose Gourgaud , stage name Rose Vestris, was a French actress. She was the daughter of Pierre-Antoine Gourgaud, stage name Dugazon. She married the ballet-dancer Angiolo Vestris ....

, daughter of the comic-actor Dugazon, in the town in 1766) before returning to Paris in 1767, where he was taken on as an actor at the Comédie-Italienne

Comédie-Italienne

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