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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa listen ⓘ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889. It is the second of his three ballets and, at 160 minutes, his second-longest work in any genre.
Its lyrics were written by Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain while the music is adapted by George Bruns. The song's melody is based on the "Grande valse villageoise" (nicknamed "The Garland Waltz"), from the 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote many works well-known to the general classical public, including Romeo and Juliet, the 1812 Overture, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. These, along with two of his four concertos , three of his symphonies and two of his ten operas, are among his most familiar works.
Writing about Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty in an open letter to impresario Sergei Diaghilev that was printed in the Times of London, composer Igor Stravinsky contended that Tchaikovsky's music was as Russian as Pushkin's verse or Glinka's song, since Tchaikovsky "drew unconsciously from the true, popular sources" of the Russian race ...
The Ballet Soloist (aka Russian Ballerina) – 1947 Soviet musical film with scenes from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty. With subtitles in Esperanto. Scores. Swan Lake: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Free sheet music of Danse Napolitaine from Cantorion.org; MIDI sheet music rendition per kunstderfuge.com
The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) Swan Lake This page was last edited on 29 June 2024, at 13:51 (UTC). Text is ... Category: Ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [n 1] (/ tʃ aɪ ˈ k ɒ f s k i / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period.He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally.
This arrangement was initially commissioned by Lucia Chase, the founding director of the Ballet Theatre, in January 1941.The commission consisted of a short arrangement of the four parts composing the No. 25, Pas de deux de l'Oiseau bleu et la Princesse Florine, in Act III of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.