The comic ballet La fille mal gardée,…
July 1789 CE
Inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère, the ballet is originally choreographed by Dauberval to a pastiche of music based on fifty-five popular French airs.
La Fille mal gardée will become one of the oldest and most important works in the modern ballet repertory, kept alive throughout its long performance history by way of many revivals.
The work will undergo many changes of title and will had no fewer than six scores, some of which are adaptations of older music.