The nutcracker overture tchaikovsky biography

The Nutcracker is a classical ballet in two acts. It is based on E.T.A.

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Hoffmann's 1816 fairy taleThe Nutcracker and the Mouse King. It tells the story of a little girl who goes to the Land of Sweets on Christmas Eve. Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipaadapted Hoffmann's story for the ballet.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the music. Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov designed the dances.

The nutcracker overture tchaikovsky biography

The Nutcracker was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 18 December 1892 to a modest success and rarely seen the next years.

In 1940, Walt Disney used some of the Nutcracker music in his animated movieFantasia, which led to an interest in the ballet.

Interest grew when George Balanchine's The Nutcracker was televised in the late 1950s. The ballet has been performed in many different places since then. Before the first performance, Tchaikovsky took some numbers from the ballet to form the Nutcracker Suite.

This work was a great success