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

This book combines a detailed analysis of the music of these three major ballets with a description of their first productions in imperial Russia. Separate sections are devoted to the music of each ballet and there is a background chapter on the ballet audience, the collaboration between composer and ballet master, and the Moscow of the 1860s. Ballet enthusiasts, dance historians, choreographers, students of Tchaikovsky and 19th century Russian music.