This research note identifies, section by section, the musical sources of Victor Gsovsky's Grand Pas Classique to music by Daniel Auber. It shows that the entrée, adagio and male variation derive from the Act IV pas de deux in the 1857 opéra-ballet version of Le Cheval de bronze, while the female variation and coda come from two different numbers in the Act II divertissement of Marco Spada: the Pas de Mlle Ferraris and the Pas de deux Rosati et Petipa. The note also distinguishes between these immediate sources and a deeper genealogy of individual themes involving Fra Diavolo, Le Duc d'Olonne and the Grande ouverture pour l'Exposition de Londres. More broadly, it argues that Grand Pas Classique preserves genuine nineteenth-century ballet structures by Auber rather than a later arrangement of miscellaneous themes.
Alisa Sveshnikova (Fri,) studied this question.