Category:Cesare Pugni

**Cesare Pugni**
	Italian composer
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Name in native language	Cesare Pugni
Date of birth	31 May 1802; Genoa
Date of death	26 January 1870 (in Julian calendar); Saint Petersburg
Place of burial	Vyborgskoe Catholic cemetery;
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of Italy (1861, 1870);
Educated at	Milan Conservatory;
Occupation	composer; choreographer; music pedagogue;
Employer	Saint Petersburg Conservatory;
Notable work	Ondine, ou La naïade;
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English: Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a virtuoso violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Cesare Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre in London (1843-1850), and as Ballet Composer of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and to the Court of His Imperial Majesty in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (1850-1870).