Salvatore Viganò

Salvatore Viganò (March 25, 1769 – August 10, 1821), was an Italian choreographer, dancer and composer.

He studied composition with Luigi Boccherini (his uncle) and by the mid-1780s was composing original music.

In 1791, he and his wife achieved success as a dancing team in Venice, where he choreographed his first ballet, Raoul de Créqui.

He is considered the father of a new kind of performance called "coreodramma [ru]" where the pantomime served the dance and the ensembles were very significant.

Viganò's elder sister, Vincenza Viganò-Mombelli was also a dancer and the librettist of Rossini's first opera Demetrio e Polibio.