Luigi Astolfi

Luigi Astolfi
Born	1790s Lombardy
Died	1860s Milan
Nationality	Italian
Citizenship	Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
Occupation	dancer, choreographer, composer

Luigi Astolfi (Italian pronunciation: [luˈid͡ʒi asˈtɔlfi]; 1790s–1860s) was an Italian dancer, choreographer, and composer.

Luigi Astolfi was born in Lombardy in the 1790s.

In 1817 he had his first great success as a dancer performing Osvaldo e Olfrida by Giuseppe Sorrentino at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice.

In the following years he also started to practise as a choreographer, especially in Lisbon and, to a lesser extent, also in Oporto, in Vienna, and in Russia, but with less success; performances of Belisario and Gli esiliati in Siberia (1831) by Gaetano Donizetti, and La muette de Portici by Daniel Auber (1838) were warmly received by critics and audience.

Later he was also the composer of the music that he performed as a dancer; his first great success was Le sette reclute, performed for the first time in 1832 at the Teatro alla Canobbiana in Milan. Again at the Canobbiana in 1837 I minatori di Salerno was performed for the first time: this is his most famous and most performed ballet, not only by Astolfi himself but also by other performers; this was the only work by Astolfi to be performed even after his death.

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