The Nutcracker
Suite from the Ballet
Concert Band - Sheet Music

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Ensembles
Concert Band
Genres
Classical
Christmas
Publishers
Baton Music
Formats
Score and Parts
Set of Parts
Item Types
Physical
Levels
Grade 4
Musical Forms
Suite
Usages
School and Community
Concert band concert band - Grade 4

SKU: BF.BM815-SET

Suite from the Ballet. Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikowsky. Arranged by Martin Jorge. Baton Music orchestral series. Suite from the Ballet. Full Score and set of parts. Baton Music #BM815-SET. Published by Baton Music (BF.BM815-SET).

Tschaikowsky's 'The Nutcracker' is a two-act ballet on a libretto adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'. It has become one of his most famous compositions, in particular the pieces featured in the suite. Tschaikowsky made a selection of eight of the numbers from the ballet before the ballet's December 1892 première, forming 'The Nutcracker Suite', Op. 71a, intended for concert performance. This suite became instantly popular, with almost every number encored at its premiere, while the complete ballet did not begin to achieve its great popularity until after the George Balanchine staging became a hit in New York City. Martin Jorge transcribed the complete suite for Symphonic Band. Besides all original movements ('Overture', 'March', 'Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy', 'Trepak', 'Arabian Dance', 'Chinese Dance', 'Dance of the Mirlitons' and 'Waltz of the Flowers') this suite contains two extra movements from the ballet: 'Decoration and lighting of the Christmas Tree' and 'Galop of the Children and Entrance of the Parents'.