Music from the Nutcracker Overture Act I Scene 1 Decoration of the Christmas Tree Scene 2: ... more
March Scene 3: Children's Gallup and Entry of the Parents Scene 4: Arrival of Drosselmeyer Scene 5: Grandfather's Dance Scene 6: Clara and the Nutcracker Scene 7...
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Hal Leonard Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite: for Piano Solo; Arrangement from the ... more
"Holiday Classic"; arranged by Carol Klose; Level: medium; Arabian Dance, Chinese Dance, Dance Of The Reed Flutes, Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, March, Overture, Russian Dance, Waltz Of The Flowers
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Advantages: Beautiful, carefree winding melodies, memorable sequences, wonderful for the christmas season. Disadvantages: Absolutely none.
Introduction
The Nutcracker Ballet remains the most popular of
Tchaikovsky's later works, despite being released to low acclaim during the 1890's it grew into one of the most renowned and loved classical compositions to date.
Indeed, even Disney created a feature film : Fantasia, which featured Mickey Mouse as a wizards apprentice, his actions backed by the various themes from the Nutcracker ballad.
Throughout last century and through into this one, the Nutcracker has proven popular in concerts all over the world, the ballad soon gained a reputation as a festive ballad, in part due to the light and airy melodies heard throughout the entire piece that excellently compliment the festive tale.
Thus, most concerts run from late November through until early January. Ticket prices vary, ranging from around a tenner to fifty ...
Advantages: Exquisite dance music. A fesrive fantasia. Disadvantages: A little too fast moving
With all the festivities of Christmas now begun, we are bombarded with advertisements of Christmas Films, Pantomimes and CDs. Among these, and often overlooked, is The Nutcracker composed by Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky was already well known for his Ballet music when he composed the music for the Nutcracker in 1892 with compositions for Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty already completed. Both had, however, been unfavourably received by the contemporary audiences and critics, Not discouraged, the director of The Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Vsevolozhsky commissioned Tchaikovsky to compose another ballet.
Vsevolozhsky himself suggested that an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann?s story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Alexander Dumas, be used as a subject for the ballet. Tchaikovsky was not originally impressed ...
Advantages: Very exciting and powerful piece of emotional hysteria Disadvantages: If you're obsessed with classical form and beauty, then this might just be too much
"FATUM"
Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was an unusual Russian composer of the 19th century. He was considered authentically Russian outside his own country, yet was scorned by the nationalist composers of Russia. The Mighty Five of nationalist composers (César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin and Mily Balakirev) were spearheading the idea of national Russian music as opposed to mainstream German Romanticism that was on the rage in the late 1800's. Their intent was specifically to counteract Anton Rubinstein, a composer known for being very academic and often producing music profoundly dull. This caused them, particularly Balakirev, to seriously suspect the viability of solid academic training, rather opting for music with an "authentic" Russian stamp on it. To them, Tchaikovsky seemed too cosmopolitan to be ...
