Louis-Aimé d'Auvigny[lower-alpha 1] (about 1738, in Paris – after 1795, in Tulchyn,[1]Poland, now Ukraine) was an 18th-century French dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and dance teacher.
D'Auvigny was probably the son of a writer and historian Aymé-Jean Chabaille d'Auvigny de Morinval, step brother of dancer and dance teacher Nicolas-François-Hyacinthe Dubus, known by his stage name Hyacinthe, and of the comic actors Gabriel-Éléonor-Hervé Dubus, whose stage name was Soli (Sauly), and Pierre-Louis Dubus, whose stage name was Préville.[2] His mother was their sister, Louise-Élisabeth Dubus (marriage 1737).[3]
In Stuttgart, he married dancer Marie Claudine Toscani (1746–1768) on 6 March 1764. She was the daughter of Italian comedians Giovanni Battista Toscani and Isabella Gafforia.[4]
After making his debut in the ballet of the Comédie-Italienne in 1753[5] and of the Comédie-Française in 1755[6] (two years after Préville), D'Auvigny spent some years in Lyon where he danced with Jean-Georges Noverre. In 1760, Noverre called him to the court of Stuttgart and gradually entrusted him with the responsibility of ballet.
D'Auvigny's death belongs to Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's pen: "already advanced in years, a resident of Tulchyn, he took a young wife, and died on his wedding night – a harsh lesson", Niemcewicz comments, "for old men".[1][16]
He was the father of painter-miniaturist Charles (Carl, Karol) d'Auvigny (1 September 1765, Ludwigsburg[17] – 4 February 1830, Warsaw[18]).
His name was also recorded as: Dauvigny and D’Auvigne, D’Auvigni, D’auvigny, d’Avigny, Dauvigni, Davigni, Davigny, Douigny, Douvigny, Dovigny, Dovini, Dovinié, Dowini, Dowinni; and in Poland he was given Polish first name Ludwik.
Auguste Jal, Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire: errata et supplément pour tous les Dictionnaires historiques d’après des documents authentiques inédits, Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Édireur, Paris, 1867, p. 1000.
Eberhard Schauer, Das Persolan des Württembergischen Hoftheaters 1750-1800. Ein Lexikon der Hofmusiker, Tänzer, Operisten und Hilfskräfte. In: Musik und Musiker am Stuttgarter Hoftheater (1750-1918). Quellen und Studien, Herausgegeben Reiner Nägle, Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, 2000, p. 57. ISBN3-88282-054-3
Mattia Verazi, Calliroe: tragédie en musique; presented on the Grand Theatre of Louisbourg on the day of the birth of His Highness Serenissime Monsignor the Duke Regnant of Wirtenberg and Teck etc. The music was composed expressly by Mr. Antoine Sacchini, Kapelmeister, Napolitan. Ballets drawn from the very subject, are invented by the author of Tragedy, & performed by Monsieur Dauvigny, maître de ballets of S. A. S. The Decorations are the invention of Mr. Josué Scotti, painter of the Theatre of the Court of Justice of the United Kingdom. [Stuttgart], Cotta, 1770, p. 167.
Verazi, Mattia; Sacchini (July 18, 1770). "Callirhoe: Ein Singspiel, welches an dem hohen Geburts-Fest, Seiner Regierenden Herzoglichen Durchlaucht, zu Würtemberg auf der grossen Herzoglichen Schaubühne in Ludwigsburg vorgestellet worden". doi:10.11588/diglit.26822.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Emmett Langdon Avery, The London Stage, 1660-1800: 1747-1776, edited with a critical introd. by G. W. Stone, Southern Illinois University Press, 1968, p. 1691.
Nina Taylor, F. D. Kniaźnin and The Polish Balloon, in: Politics and Literature in Eastern Europe, edited by Celia Hawkesworth, St. Martin's Press INC, New York, 1992, p. 136-137. ISBN978-0-312-07991-8