{"id":14988,"date":"2026-07-17T03:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkballet2.websitedevsystem.com\/team\/ludwig-minkus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T07:56:35","slug":"ludwig-minkus","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/team\/ludwig-minkus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludwig Minkus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span><span>The composer, violin virtuoso and teacher Ludwig Minkus (1826 \u2013 1917) was born in Vienna, Austria.<span>He worked extensively with the highly respected ballet masters and choreographers Arthur Saint-L\u00e9on and Marius Petipa on original works and revivals.Petipa asked Minkus to compose the accompaniment for his 1869 premi\u00e8re of <em>Don Quixote<\/em>; the resulting score is full of variety, and suffused with Spanish flair. Minkus was made <\/span>Ballet Composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres<span>as a result of the huge success of both the ballet and its music, and he held the post from 1871 until its discontinuation in 1886.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span><span>During his long career, Minkus composed full ballet scores for <em>La Source<\/em>, <em>La Bayad\u00e8re<\/em> and <em>Don Quixote<\/em>, as well as a substantial amount of supplemental material for insertion into already existing ballets including <em>Giselle<\/em>. He is also noted for the\u00a0<em>Grand Pas Classique<\/em>,the<em> Pas de Trois<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Mazurka des Enfants<\/em>\u00a0that werewritten especially for Marius Petipa&#8217;s 1881 revival of the ballet\u00a0<em>Paquita<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","team-type":[],"class_list":["post-14988","team","type-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/14988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hkballet.com\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-type?post=14988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}