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Gabriel de Korpony and Paline desjardins

Stage Name

Birth Name
Gabriel De Korpony Gabriel De Korpony
Pauline Desjardins Pauline Desjardins

   ---Gabriel and Pauline are credited for introducing the Polka to the United States in 1844. De Korponay was a retired officer in the Hungarian Army. The Polka they did was one of the most liked of all the Polkas introduced at the time.

   Pauline danced with Fanny Elssler at the Park Theater in New York in the 1840s , they did Pauline's dance The New Polski Mazurka. (Picture shows Pauline and Gabriel doing the Polka in 1848)
 

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring
?NYC? (G) n/a n/a n/a
                       
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles
New Polski Mazurka (Park Theater, NY) Fanny Elssler      
Polka Pauline Desjardins      
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage
n/a Park Theater n/a
                 
 

Films

Television

(Other)
n/a n/a n/a
                 
NOTE:Korpony de Kamonka was on the same sheet music. aka: de Corpony
May 7, 2004
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