Tchaikovsky's Ballets: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker

by Roland John Wiley

Book Overview

Tchaikovsky's Ballets combines a detailed and thorough analysis of the music of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker with descriptions of the first productions of these works in Imperial Russia. A background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration of composer and balletmaster,
and Moscow of the 1860's leads into an account of the first production of Swan Lake in 1877. A discussion of theater reforms initiated by the Director of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162499
• ISBN13: 9780198162490
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"