Dance of the Suger Plum Fairy (from the Nutcracker Ballet)
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Product ID: LW2 50250013
By Pjotr Illych Tchaikovsky
published: 1892
Publisher:
LudwigMasters
Arranger:
Longfield
Series:
StringMasters Developing Strings
Line Up:
String Orchestra
Duration:
2:00
Level: 2
Set & Score
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About this item
Every holiday concert needs music from Tchaikovsky's immortal ballet, The Nutcracker. Robert Longfield's masterful transcription brings Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy into the range of grade 2 string orchestras. The celesta part has been made more "user friendly," having been scored for piano but can be played on celesta if one is available. The March and Waltz of the Flowers have also been adapted for use by your string orchestra.
Instrumentation
1 Full Score
8 Violin 1
8 Violin 2
3 Violin 3 (subst. Viola)
5 Viola
5 Cello
5 Bass
1 Piano opt.
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Composer
Pjotr Illych Tchaikovsky (1840-1897)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide-ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental, chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.
Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant, despite his obvious musical precocity. He pursued a musical career against the wishes of his family, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, with whom Tchaikovsky's professional relationship was mixed.
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