Who wrote the ballet 'The Box of Toys' first performed in Paris in 1919?
Music in Paris was the first state music conservatory in Europe; famous students and faculty included composers Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy and Nadia Boulanger. The school now located within the Cité de la Musique, near the Philharmonic Hall, in the 19th arrondissement. The first and most famous ballet school in France, the "École de danse de l'Opéra national de Paris", the school of dance of the Paris opera, was founded in 1669 for adult dancers, and began taking children as students beginning in 1776. Virtually all of the main dancers of the Paris ballet are graduates of he school.
Paris in the 17th century was used for spectacular dance performances. Dance had been popular at the French court since the Middle Ages, but ballet was not given a formal status until March 30, 1661, with the founding of the "Académie royale de danse". The first French comedy-ballet, "Les Fâcheux", was a collaboration between Moliere, Beauchamp and the composer Lully; it was performed on August 17, 1661. In 1669, the ballet academy was formally merged into the Royal Academy of Music and became part of the opera. The first opera-ballet in Paris, "L'Europe galante", with music by Campra and choreography by Louis Pécour, was performed