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Ivor Guest has 30 books on Goodreads with 249 ratings. Ivor Guest’s most popular book is Adventures of a Ballet Historian (Unfinished Memoir).
Ivor Forbes Guest DUniv MA FRAD (14 April 1920 – 30 March 2018) was a British historian and writer, best known for his study of ballet. He was chairman of the Royal Academy of Dance for twenty three years (1970–93) and has been a Vice-President since 1993 [2] and Secretary then Trustee of the Radcliffe Trust.
See all books authored by Ivor Guest, including The Romantic Ballet in England: Its Development, Fulfillment, and Decline, and The Paris Opera Ballet, and more on ThriftBooks.com.
British dance historian. A solicitor by profession, he became one of the leading authorities on 18th- and 19th-century dance and author of many books on dance. A list of his titles includes The Ballet of the Second Empire 1858–70 (London, 1953), The Romantic Ballet in England (London, 1954), The Ballet of the Second Empire 1847–1858 (London ...
Ivor Guest is the author of Adventures of a Ballet Historian (4.71 avg rating, 7 ratings, 3 reviews, published 2011), The Romantic Ballet in Paris (4.83 ...
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Nov 28, 2014 · The Ballet of the Second Empire. Hardcover – November 28, 2014. This is the combined edition of Ivor Guest's classic two-volume study of the ballet of the Second Empire. An unjustly neglected phase of ballet history, the Second Empire is a continuation of the great Romantic period.
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He wrote numerous books including Napoleon III in England, The Romantic Ballet in England, The Ballet of the Enlightenment, Ballet Under Napoleon, The Romantic Ballet in Paris, and The Ballet of...
