Miniature Overture from "Suite from 'The Nutcracker'"
Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky (tr. Rogan; ed. McAlister and Alfred Reed)
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This work bears the designation Opus 71A.
General Info
Year: 1892 / 2001
Duration: c. 3:20
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Masters Music
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $40.00 | Score Only (print) - $10.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71). It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera, Iolanta.
Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete Nutcracker has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in the U.S.
Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions, in particular the pieces featured in the suite. Among other things, the score is noted for its use of the celesta, an instrument that the composer had already employed in his much lesser known symphonic ballad The Voyevoda.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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Performances
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- Contra Costa (Calif.) Wind Symphony (Brad Hogarth, conductor) – 7 December 2015
- Festival Wind Orchestra (Toronto, Can.) (Keith Reid, conductor) - 15 December 2012
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Douce Rêverie (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vernay) (1878/2020)
- Scenes from "Swan Lake" (Adaptable Band) (arr. Fisher) (1876/2016)
- Themes from "1812 Overture" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1891/2008)
- Themes from "The Nutcracker" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1891/1999/2010)
All Wind Works
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- 1812 Overture (arr. Kimura) (1880)
- 1812 Overture (arr. Mol) (1880)
- 1812 Overture (arr. Laurendeau; ed. Schissel) (1880/1904/2010)
- 1812 Overture (arr. Whitcomb) (1880)
- 1812 Overture (arr. Williams) (1880/1997)
- 1812 Overture (tr. Patterson) (1880)
- Album for the Young (Op. 39) (arr. Curnow) (1878/2007)
- Andante Cantabile (arr. Safranek) (/1913)
- Capriccio Italien (tr. Hindsley) (1880/1984)
- Chanson Triste (arr. Reed) (1878/1989)
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- Coronation March (arr. Van Grevenbroek) (1883/2013)
- Cossak Dance (tr. Bourgeois) (2008)
- Dance of the Jesters (arr. Cramer) (1873/1997)
- Dance of the Reed Flutes (arr. Cook) (1892/1990)
- Dance of the Reed Flutes (arr. Schwalbe) (1892/2015?)
- Dances from The Oprichnik (tr. Bourgeois) (1872/2008)
- Dances des mirlitons (arr. Buitenhuis) (1892/)
- Douce Rêverie (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vernay) (1878/2020)
- Echoes from a Russian Cathedral (arr. Singleton) (1878-1883/2005)
- Entry March from "Swan Lake" (tr. Billis) (1877/1996)
- Faeries (arr. Davis; adapt. Longfield) (1891/)
- Fantasy on "March Slav" (arr. Bobrowitz) (1876/2019)
- Festive Overture on the Danish National Anthem (arr. Godfrey) (1908)
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- Finale from Symphony in F minor No. 4 (arr. Balent). See: Finale from Symphony No. 4
- Finale from Symphony in F minor No. 4 (arr. Brooks) (1878/)
- Finale from Symphony in F minor No. 4 (tr. Hindsley) (1878/197-?)
- Finale from Symphony in F minor No 4 (arr. Safranek; ed. Ragsdale) (1878/1912/2004)
- Finale from Symphony in F minor No. 4 (arr. Sato) (1878/2014)
- Finale from Symphony in F minor No. 4 (arr. Singleton) (1878/1912/2003)
- Finale from Symphony No. 2 (arr. Williams) (1872/1880/2002)
- Finale from Symphony No. 4 (arr. Balent) (1878/2005)
- Gems of Tchaikovsky (arr. Clark) (1917)
- Highlights from "1812 Overture" (arr. Hanna) (1880/1997)
- Jurisprudence (arr. Godfrey) (1885/1909)
- Le Lac des Cygnes: Act I, Scene 1 (arr. Nefs) (1876/)
- Mad Russian's Christmas, A (arr. Phillips and Megaw) (1891/1996/2015)
- March from "The Sleeping Beauty" (arr. Bourgeois) (1890/2018)
- March Slav (tr. Daehn) (1876/1994)
- March Slav (tr. Hindsley) (1876/197-?)
- March Slav (orch. Simpson) (1876/2000)
- Marche Slav (arr. Laurendeau) (1876/1906)
- Marche Slave (arr. Godfrey) (1876/1917)
- Miniature Overture from "Suite from 'The Nutcracker'" (tr. Rogan; ed. McAlister and Reed) (1892/2001)
- None but the Lonely Heart (arr. Kimura) (1869/2007)
- Nutcracker Fantasia (arr. Giroux) (1891/2012)
- The Nutcracker Fantasy (arr. Yo Goto) (1891/)
- Nutcracker Suite (arr. Lake) (1891/1924)
- Nutcracker Suite (arr. Curnow) (1891/1987)
- Nutcracker Suite (arr. Lavender) (1891/1999)
- Nutcracker Sweets (arr. Corwell) (1891/2010)
- The Nutty Nutcracker (arr. Hannickel) (1891/2006)
- Overture 1812. See also: 1812 Overture
- Overture 1812 (arr. Story and Smith) (1882/2012)
- Overture from "The Nutcracker" (arr. Ballenger III) (1891/)
- Petite Suite (arr. Cray) (1878/1946)
- Polonaise from "Third Suite" (arr. Godfrey) (1884/1916)
- Romeo and Juliet (trans. Hindsley) (1870/?)
- Romeo and Juliet (trans. Holcombe) (1870/1981)
- Scenes from "Swan Lake" (Adaptable Band) (arr. Fisher) (1876/2016)
- Scenes from "The Nutcracker" (arr. Story) (1884/2010)
- Selections from "The Nutcracker Suite" (arr. Hartman) (1884/2013)
- Selections from "The Nutcracker Suite" (arr. Longfield) (1884/1992)
- Sleeping Beauty, The (arr. Bennett) (1960)
- Sleeping Beauty: Waltz (arr. Eilhardt) (1889)
- Sugar Plum Reggae (arr. Fraley) (1891/2012)
- Suite from "Swan Lake" (tr. Yodo) (1876/)
- Suite from the Ballet "The Swan Lake" (arr. Godfrey) (1876/1911)
- Suite No. 3 in G Major (tr. Winterbottom) (1884/1937)
- Symphony No. 4 Finale (arr. Fyffe) (1878/2000)
- Symphony No. 6: Third Movement Finale (arr. Daehn) (1893/2007)
- Symphony No. 6 (arr. Hindsley)
- Symphony No. 6 -- First Movement (arr. Hindsley) (1893/197-?)
- Symphony No. 6 -- Third Movement (arr. Hindsley) (1893/197-?)
- Tchaikovsky Ballet Suite (arr. Bourgeois) (2012)
- Tchaikovsky Highlights (arr. Van der Beek) (2019)
- Tchaikovsky Suite (scored Barnes) (1878/2004)
- Tchaikovskyana (arr. Daehn) (1979/2015)
- Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits (arr. Moss) (2003)
- Theme and Variations from "Suite in G Major" (arr. Winterbottom) (1884/1937)
- Themes from "1812 Overture" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Vinson) (1891/2008)
- Themes from "The Nutcracker" (arr. Huckeby) (1891/2010/2013)
- Themes from "The Nutcracker" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Huckeby) (1891/1999/2010)
- Themes from "The Nutcracker Suite" (arr. Johnson) (1891/1952)
- Three Chorales for Band (with Handel and Pasquini; arr. Thornton) (1992/2004)
- Three Dances from "The Maid of Orleans" (tr. Bourgeois) (1879/2007)
- Three Onegin Dances (arr. Van der Beek)
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