Tchaikovsky compositions5/26/2023 ![]() Tchaikovsky and Vsevolozhsky had planned from the outset that children would play a major role in The Nutcracker, a highly unusual and controversial decision for that time. You will lose nothing on it… you will sell it to the directorate of the Theatres, when they need it for the ballet.’ He begged his publisher to keep the celesta a secret, ‘for I am afraid that Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov will get wind of it and use its unusual effects sooner than me…’Īnother striking feature is the score’s array of children’s instruments, including toy trumpets, toy drums, cuckoos, quails and cymbals, all intended to be played on-stage by the child performers in the opening party scene. Inspired by a discovery he made in Paris, he wrote to his publisher about ‘a new orchestral instrument, something between a small piano and a glockenspiel with a divinely marvellous sound… It is called the “Celesta Mustel” and it costs 1,200 francs… I would like to ask you to order this instrument. He returned newly enthused about the ballet. Relieved of this immediate burden, Tchaikovsky fulfilled his tour (obliged by having already spent a good part of a generous advance). Vsevolozhsky naturally wrote back reassuring Tchaikovsky that everything could be postponed a year. No sooner had the ink dried than he received news that his beloved sister, Sasha, had died. The best (and worst) recordings of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet.Swan Lake: the story behind Tchaikovsky's great ballet score.
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