Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer who worked in the theaters of Milan, Paris, London and St. Petersburg. He is the author of 312 ballets, 10 operas, 40 masses, as well as symphonies, cantatas and other works. In 1822 he graduated from the Milan Conservatory in composition. In 1825-1834 he worked at the La Scala theater, where his ballets such as The Siege of Calais (1827), Agamemnon (1828), Adelaide of France (1829), and Macbeth (1830) were staged. From 1834 to 1843 he worked in Paris, and from 1843 to 1850 in L