Among other things, the score of The Nutcracker is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad, The Voyevoda premiere Both male and female corps were outstanding all night.
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Tchaikovsky then asked Vsevolozhsky whether the productions of the ballet and opera could be postponed until the next season: "I could complete my voyage to America without the torments, the doubts, and the fears; return home calm and rested from any conceivable traumas experienced in Paris and America, and enjoy working little by little, confident that I will be writing two masterpieces pardon my immodesty " [30].
On the same day, Tchaikovsky wrote of this to his brother Modest [31]. Ivan Vsevolozhsky agreed to postpone the ballet and the opera, and further work on the ballet was only resumed after Tchaikovsky's return from America, in Maydanovo at the end of May Now I have started to work" [34].
Letters to various correspondents during June refer to work on the ballet. On the same day he wrote to Praskovya Tchaikovskaya : "Work is proceeding intensively, and I'm glad that my travels are over" [37]. There are unexpected distractions" [38]. It turned out that I only just managed it in 2 weeks. The old man is evidently declining. Not only is his hair thinning and turning silver as snow, not only are his teeth falling out and refusing to chew food, not only are his eyes weakening and becoming easily tired, not only are his feet starting to drag rather than walk—but his singular remaining faculty is starting to fade and disappear.
The ballet is infinitely worse that " The Sleeping Beauty "—of this I'm sure. Let's see how the opera will turn out" [39]. On the same day, the composer told Modest Tchaikovsky and Aleksandra Hubert that he had finished the sketches, complaining that he was greatly tired, and "it seems the old man is starting to take his last breaths" [40].
In the divertissement, Tchaikovsky used dances that were originally written for Act I. And so, where the plan called for "Dances", under the title Le chocolat , Tchaikovsky noted: "Spanish dance, see 1st copybook"; the same applied for the dance Tea — "See 1st copybook" the Chinese dance was used.
Near to sketches for the dance Polichinella , Tchaikovsky wrote: "No. After finishing the sketches of the ballet, Tchaikovsky left to spend some days in Saint Petersburg , and on his return he began to compose the opera Iolanta , and also to correct the full score of the opera Yevgeny Onegin.
It was considerably later that Tchaikovsky set about the instrumentation of the ballet, in January , after he had already orchestrated the opera. He began by orchestrating the few numbers which were to be performed as a Suite from the ballet. I think it will be finished by the summer" [44].
The date at the start of the fair copy of the Suite reads: "8 Feb. The Nutcracker was arranged for piano by Sergey Taneyev , but in view of the difficulty of this arrangement, Tchaikovsky made a simplified one of his own. This work was carried out at the end of August [47]. According to the composer the audience was unenthusiastic: " The Nutcracker was staged quite well: it was lavishly produced and everything went off perfectly, but nevertheless, it seemed to me that the public did not like it.
They were bored" [48]. In Moscow the first production of The Nutcracker did not take place until 21 May , in a production at the Bolshoi Theatre by the balletmaster Aleksandr Gorsky, conducted by Nikolay Fyodorov. It was only on 30 January that the ballet received its first complete performance in London , at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, directed by Nicholas Sergeyev.
William Christensen's production with the San Francisco Ballet on 24 December was the first complete performance in the United States. The full score was published by Pyotr Jurgenson in The piano arrangements by Sergey Taneyev and the author were also brought out in by the same publisher.
The full score and the composer's simplified piano arrangement of The Nutcracker were published in volumes 13 and 54 respectively of Tchaikovsky's Complete Collected Works , edited by V. Not logged in Log in.
Tchaikovsky Research. Wiki tools Special pages Cite this page. Page tools. Userpage tools. Categories Ballets. Namespaces Page Discussion. Page actions View View source History More. A guide to the man and his music, vol. The date "24" must be a mistake, since Tchaikovsky was in Rouen on 29 March [N.
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