Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker, Op.71 Music Sheet

Explore the The Nutcracker, Op.71 virtual piano sheet and Roblox piano sheet, compare available arrangements, and play online with QWERTY notes. The Nutcracker, Op. 71, is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was premiered in 1892, and its score holds the character dances and divertissements. The ballet keeps company with Tchaikovsky's other stage works, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but its Christmas-party story and its sequence of short characteristic dances give it a shape of its own. The catalog entry is a community arrangement of a single number, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. That dance belongs to the ballet; it is not the whole of Op. 71.

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Who composed The Nutcracker?

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed it.

When was it premiered?

It was premiered in 1892.

What is the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?

It is one number within the ballet. The selected score arranges that single dance.

Does the catalog score cover the full ballet?

No. It is a community arrangement of one number, not the complete Op. 71.