Musique classique

2008 · SER-071 — <p>Newly edited and engraved study score for the original 1877 version of Tchaikovsky's first ballet masterpiece. Includes Preface Synopsis and Cast of Characters. This is the complete orchestral score not a piano reduction based upon the composer's autograph the first edition issued by P. Jurgenson and the score from Tchaikovsky's complete works. <em>Swan Lake</em> Tchaikovsky's first venture into ballet was only moderately successful in its first production at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. Choreographer Julius Reissinger's dances were not well received and those of his successor Joseph Peter Hansen fared no better. The ballet was propelled into the permanent repertoire only after a brilliant revival mounted by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in St. Petersburg more than a year after Tchaikovsky's death from cholera. A new reasonably priced study score that will be invaluable to students conductors music lovers and ballet aficionados everywhere.</p><p>Originally issued in 2008 by the now-defunct American publisher E.F. Kalmus the only authorized publisher of the Simpson edition is now Serenissima Music who also offers the large conductor score 10 x 13 inches 2 volumes and orchestra parts 9.5 x 12.5 inches.</p><p>Orchestra 21 2 2 2 - 4 22 3 1 timp 3perc hp strs ; ISMN 979-0-800001-56-7</p> Serenissima Music, Inc. paperback