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🎶 The 17th International Tchaikovsky Competition will be held in Moscow and St Petersburg from June 19 to July 1

🎻 The competition has received 742 applications from 41 countries.
The categories include piano, violin, cello, voice, woodwinds and brass instruments.

🎻 The competition is a national treasure of Russian musical culture. It has an unbroken history. It is held once every four years. Over the years – and it is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year – it has become one of the most ambitious and most respected music competitions in the world.

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Ballet “The Nutcracker” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky has become a symbol of magical transformation and the eternal renewal of life. And due to this, an inevitable part of the Christmas tradition.

🩰 Adapted from Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, it was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg in 1892. The original production was unsuccessful, but the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet became very popular.

🌐 Outside Russia, the ballet was first performed in England in 1934. The famous George Balanchine's staging of “The Nutcracker” took place in New York City Ballet in 1954.

🌲 Since the late 1960s, P.Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” has become immensely popular in Russia and abroad. It has been performed by hundreds ballet companies primarily during the Christmas season.

🎉 Take time to enjoy the 1977 Bolshoi Theatre staging of “The Nutcracker”.

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🎶 On 20 August 1882, “The Year 1812” overture by P.Tchaikovsky, commemorating Russia’s defeat of Napoleon, was debuted in Moscow under a tent near the then-unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

The piece belongs to a specific kind of musical works, to be performed at open-air venues or in large halls. It best known for its climactic volley of cannon fire, ringing chimes and a brass fanfare finale. P.Tchaikovsky noted in the manuscript score that “the bells should be large, and all of the same pitch; they should be struck in the manner of celebratory ringing”, and that the cannon should be “the instrument used in theatres to depict a cannon shot”.

🎻 Ever since its premiere, the overture has been among the best-known and most frequently performed of P.Tchaikovsky's works along with his “The Nutcracker” (1892), “The Sleeping Beauty” (1889-1890) and “Swan Lake” (1875-1876).

🎧 Dive into this masterpiece and experience its grandeur for yourself!

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