Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker
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(1 ratings)62 pages2008Penguin Group USA, Inc.ISBN 9781429583633
Fairy talesBalletsStories, plotsChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureFictionKhoikhoi (African people)Description and travelChildren's stories, GermanChristmas storiesJuvenile fictionChristmasFiction, fantasy, historicalAlice (fictitious character : carroll), fictionMonologues with music (Piano, 4 hands)Texts
About this book
Young Marie Stahlbaum falls in love with the handsome nutcracker Godfather Drosselmeier gives her family as a Christmas gift, and has adventures with him as he faces the monstrous, seven-headed Mouse King.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 62
- ISBN
- 9781429583633
- Language
- en
About E. T. A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.
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