answersLogoWhite

0

The Nutcracker is a Ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Approximately twenty minutes of the score from this ballet was extracted and arranged by Tchaikovsky to be played as a stand alone piece and is often referred to as the Nutcracker Suite,

User Avatar

Wiki User

12y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

What musical era was hyden in?

He was, I believe in the classical era. Franz Josef Haydn was a composer during the beginning of the Classical period.


How does The Nutcracker embrace musical nationalism?

Oh honey, The Nutcracker is like the poster child for musical nationalism. Tchaikovsky was all about putting Russia on the map with this one. He sprinkled in folk tunes and dances from his homeland like it was nobody's business. So yeah, The Nutcracker is basically waving the Russian flag in the world of classical music.


What musical period was Andrew Lloyd webber in?

Lloyd Webber is still alive, which makes him a contemporary composer, but the question is meaningless, because he doesn't write classical music. He's a theater composer.


Is it accurate to call the person who does the musical score for a film musical score composer?

Composer or Film Composer


Who is the composer of the musical hairspray?

The musical composer was Marc Shaiman and the lyrics by Scott Wittman.


What musical era was gyorgy ligeti from?

Gyorgy Ligeti was active is considered by musicologists to be a Post-1945 Modernist composer of the Western European classical tradition


Who influenced the composer's musical trainings?

The composer's they themselves did it


Who was tansen?

Mian Tansen was a musical composer of classical Hindu music. His actual birth name was Ramtanu Pandey and he was also known as Mohammad Ata Khan.


What are three differences between phantom of the opera and the nutcracker?

Phantom is a musical; the Nutcracker is a ballet. Phantom has a phantom; the Nutcracker has dancing mice. Phantom has a falling chandelier; the Nutcracker has a Sugarplum Fairy.


What is a funny musical play for children during Christmas?

The Nutcracker.


When a composer develops a musical idea they use?

When a composer develops a musical idea, they use a process known as fragmentation.


What composer did Johannes brahms model his work after?

He modeled his choral works after those of Handel and Haydn. His love for musical tradition was influenced by Bach and the other Viennese Classical Composers.