Who wrote the Mother Goose Suite?
Mother Goose (ballet) Mother Goose (ballet) Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the "Ma Mère l'Oye Suite" from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Stanley Simmons and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. At its premiere it bore the French title, which was retained when it was first revived in January 1978 but Anglicized by May of that year. "Ma Mère l'Oye" was written as a suite of five
Mother Goose Other scholars have pointed out that Charlemagne's mother, Bertrada of Laon, came to be known as the goose-foot queen ("regina pede aucae"). There are even sources that trace Mother Goose's origin back to the biblical Queen of Sheba. Despite evidence to the contrary, it has been claimed in America that the original Mother Goose was the Bostonian wife of Isaac Goose, either named Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665–1758) or Mary Goose (d. 1690, age 42). Alternatively, the original Mother Goose lived in Boston in the 1660s, reportedly as the second wife of Isaac Goose (alternatively named Vergoose or Vertigoose), who brought