Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite - Act II, No.14. The Magic Castle in the Kingdom of Sweets

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky 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. El Cascanueces es un ballet en dos actos, originalmente coreografiado por Marius Petipa y Lev Ivanov y con una puntuación de Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski (Op. 71). El libreto se adoptó a partir de la historia de ETA Hoffman El cascanueces y el rey de los ratones. Se estrenó en 1892 y, aunque no fue un éxito, la suite de 20 minutos a Tchaikovsky extrae de lo que era. A pesar de esto, la completa Nutcracked enoyed éxito enourmous después, convirtiéndose en una de las composiciones más famosas de Tchaikovsky.