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48:(1801–1843) and his wife Franziska Jahns Lanner. Her father was director of dance music at the Viennese court and was celebrated as a composer and conductor, a great rival of the elder Johann Strauss, known as the Waltz King. She began her dance training at the age of 14 with Pietro Campilli and André Isidore Carey at the ballet school of the Wiener Hofoper (
212:(1906). Although Lanner had to make concessions to music hall audiences, she and Dame Adeline kept classical ballet alive in Britain during the Edwardian era, a somnolent period of activity. Lanner is a notable figure in dance history as she was the first woman to make a career as a choreographer.
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Around 1865, Lanner founded her own company, the
Viennese Ballet and Pantomime Troupe, which toured extensively in 1869–1872 in Scandinavia, Russia, France, Portugal, the United States, and England. Everywhere she was acclaimed for her performances as Giselle. A critic for a Lisbon newspaper called
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Lanner settled in London in 1875 and the next year took on direction of the
National Training School for Dancing. Founded by J. H. Mapleson at Her Majesty's Theatre, the school had been moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1867, after Her Majesty's was destroyed by fire. Lanner was thus
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described its performance as 'well proportioned, harmonious, exact in time, graceful in its evolutions, and beautiful in its groupings." The following year, 1873, Lanner choreographed a ballet for fifty children as part of
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Katti Lanner married ballet master and company director Johann-Baptist Alfred Karl Viktor
Geraldini in 1868. They had three daughters—Katharina, Albertina, and Sophie—before their marriage ended in divorce. She died at
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her simply "the best ballerina known," In 1872, heading a troupe called the Kathi Lanner
Choreographic Connection, she returned to New York to perform at the famous theater called Niblo's Garden. In the extravaganza
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instrumental in establishing an institutional basis for
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