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    Pyotr Tchaikovsky was a famous Russian composer known for his ballets, operas, and symphonies. He is most famous for three ballets: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker tells the story of a young girl named Clara who helps a Nutcracker prince defeat mice and is brought to the magical Land of Sweets. Though initially not popular, it has since become a beloved Christmas tradition performed worldwide.

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    Pyotr Tchaikovsky was a famous Russian composer known for his ballets, operas, and symphonies. He is most famous for three ballets: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker tells the story of a young girl named Clara who helps a Nutcracker prince defeat mice and is brought to the magical Land of Sweets. Though initially not popular, it has since become a beloved Christmas tradition performed worldwide.

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    Pyotr Tchaikovsky was a famous Russian composer known for his ballets, operas, and symphonies. He is most famous for three ballets: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker tells the story of a young girl named Clara who helps a Nutcracker prince defeat mice and is brought to the magical Land of Sweets. Though initially not popular, it has since become a beloved Christmas tradition performed worldwide.

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    Pyotr Tchaikovsky was a famous Russian composer known for his ballets, operas, and symphonies. He is most famous for three ballets: The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker tells the story of a young girl named Clara who helps a Nutcracker prince defeat mice and is brought to the magical Land of Sweets. Though initially not popular, it has since become a beloved Christmas tradition performed worldwide.

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    Who was Pyotr Tchaikovsky?

    Tchaikovsky was a Russian musician and


    composer. A composer is someone who
    writes music.

    He wrote music for different occasions


    including for ballets, operas and symphonies.
    A symphony is a long piece of music which is
    played by an orchestra.

    He his most famous for his three ballets: ‘The


    Sleeping Beauty’ ‘Swan Lake’ and
    ‘The Nutcracker’.

    He was the first Russian composer to be


    famous outside of his home country.
    What was his life like?
    Growing up in Russia, Tchaikovsky had a big family.
    He had four brothers and two sisters.

    Both his parents were musical; however, his father


    worked as an engineer.

    Tchaikovsky started playing the piano at the age of


    5 and could play as well as his teacher in just
    three years!

    At the time musicians were not very well thought of. Therefore,
    instead of continuing his musical study, Tchaikovsky was sent away to
    boarding school at the age of 10 so he could become a civil servant.

    Being away from home at a young age made him very sad.

    He started playing music again and was inspired to compose


    his own music after the tragic loss of his mother in 1854.
    What was his life like?
    He gave up his job as a civil servant Though he kept in contact with many
    in order to study music, which led to close friends and some of his family
    him becoming a professor of music he never had any children himself.
    theory. It was then he was able to
    teach and compose music full time. After their separation, he travelled
    around Europe composing new music.
    He had a very short marriage in At this time his music was more
    1877 to a lady called Antonina popular in the West than in Russia.
    Miliukova. This ended very Though this changed in 1880 when
    unhappily two and a half months Russians were encouraged to get
    later. along with the West more.

    From this time until he died of


    cholera in 1893 his popularity
    steadily rose and spread.
    The Nutcracker
    Alongside ‘Swan Lake’, ‘The Nutcracker’ is arguably
    the most well known work by Tchaikovsky.

    It is a ballet written and performed in 1892, later


    on in Tchaikovsky’s life.

    The story of the ballet is set on Christmas Eve and


    so is a popular performance around Christmas time.

    Though it’s first performance was not that well


    thought of, many people still enjoyed the music.

    It has become incredibly famous and has been


    performed in many different styles all over the
    world.
    The Story
    The story is set on Christmas eve
    where a family decorates a huge The families children, Clara
    Christmas tree. and Fritz enter, delighted by
    the tree and are shown
    wonderful dolls by the toy
    When the dolls are taken maker Drosselmeyer.
    away the children are sad,
    but Drosselmeyer leaves
    them with a Nutcracker He and a heartbroken
    toy. Clara loves the doll Clara go to bed
    but Fritz deliberately
    breaks it.
    The Story
    Later that night, Clara returns to check on the wounded
    nutcracker only to find him and some tin soldiers alive and
    fighting a battle with the mice king and his army of mice.

    With Clara’s help the tin


    soldiers win. The nutcracker
    is turned into a prince!

    He leads Clara away through


    a pine forest covered in snow
    to his kingdom; The Land of
    Sweets.
    The Story
    On their arrival the Prince explains how
    Clara had saved him and his subjects hold
    a celebration of sweets in her honour.

    Many different sweets from all over the


    world perform different dances, before
    the Sugar Plum Fairy, who has ruled
    the land whilst the prince was away,
    performs a dance with her Cavalier.

    In the end all the sweets dance a


    waltz together and Clara and the
    Prince are crowned rulers of the
    Land of Sweets.

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