Malter family
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The Malter, Malterre or Maltaire family was a dynasty of French dancers and choreographers, from which came several members of the 18th century Académie royale de danse
. It was a large family and it can often be difficult to identify its members with certainty, though the relationships given below are attested by contemporary documents:
Other sources indicate that the René Malter named above was the father of three dancers of the Académie royale de danse :
Académie Royale de Danse
The Académie Royale de Danse, founded by letters patent on the initiative of King Louis XIV of France in March 1661, was the first dance institution established in the Western world...
. It was a large family and it can often be difficult to identify its members with certainty, though the relationships given below are attested by contemporary documents:
- René Malter, dance master, member of the Académie royale de danse
- Jean-Pierre Malter (?-1730), dance master, member of the Académie royale de danse
- Claude Malter, dance master in Paris, brother of the above
- François-Antoine Malter (167?-1761), dance master, member of the Académie royale de danse, brother of the two above
- René Malter (1695-1775), member and darling of the Académie royale de danse, son of François-Antoine
- François-Louis Malter (1699-1788), dancer in the ballets du Roi, member of the Académie royale de danse, son of François-Antoine
- Jean-Baptiste MalterJean-Baptiste MalterJean-Baptiste Malter was a French dancer and dance master, known under the names Aubin-Jean-Michel Malter, Jean-Baptiste or Jean-Nicolas...
(1701-1746), member of the Académie royale de danse, notably danced in Grenoble, Lyon and London. - François Duval dit MalterFrançois Duval (dancer)François Duval , known as Malter, was a French dancer.The son of Antoine Duval, a dance master in Paris, and of Henriette Brigitte Malter, two of his elder brothers were also involved in the theatre world - Antoine Jean François Duval left Paris in 1755 and worked as a dance master in...
(1743-?), ballet masterBallet MasterBallet Master is the term used for an employee of a ballet company who is responsible for the level of competence of the dancers in their company...
of the Opéra, son of Antoine Duval (dance master) and of Henriette Brigitte Malter, and nephew of the above - Jean-François Malter, dancer in the French provinces
- Jean Malter dit HamoirHamoir (dancer)Jean Malter , known as Hamoir, was a French ballet dancer and theatre director. He was one of the last of the Malter family, an 18th century dynasty of dancers....
(?-1805), ballet master of the Théâtre des Variétés-AmusantesThéâtre des Variétés-Amusantes-History:In 1778, Louis Lécluse , a former actor at the Opéra-Comique turned dentist, opened a theatre at foire Saint-Laurent, which shortly afterwards he transferred to the boulevard du Temple, at the corner of rue de Lancry and rue de Bondy .Unable to bear the hostility this new enterprise...
from 1779 to 1781 - Pierre-Conrad Malter, ballet master at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-ComiqueThéâtre de l'Ambigu-ComiqueThe theatre was rebuilt to plans by the architects Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Jean-François-Joseph Lecointe on the boulevard Saint-Martin, at the corner of rue de Bondy...
in 1788.
Other sources indicate that the René Malter named above was the father of three dancers of the Académie royale de danse :
- François-Antoine the elder, nicknamed "la Petite Culotte", entered in 1714, premier danseur comique of the Opéra in 1720
- François-Louis the younger, nicknamed "the Devil"
- Jean-Baptiste, known as Malter III, nicknamed "the Bird" or "the Englishman".