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Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky. Sheet music for Flute, page 1.

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Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Sheet music for flute

Info: Piece from "The Nutcracker", one of the most popular ballet ever created. The "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is a dance for a ballerina. This pas de deux is from Act 2 and is danced by the principal female dancer. Choreographer Marius Petipa wanted the Sugar Plum Fairy's music to sound like "drops of water shooting from a fountain". Tchaikovsky found the ideal instrument to do this job in Paris in 1891. It was then that he came across the recently invented celesta. This instrument look like a piano but sound like bells.
Date: 1892
Artist: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Born: 7 May 1840 , Votkinsk
Died: 6 November 1893 , St. Petersburg
The artist: Popular Romantic composer of 6 symphones and some of the world most performed ballets including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.
Instrument: Flute
Key: G major
Range: B4 - A6
Time signature: 4/4
Tempo: 120 BPM
Duration: 1:36
Pages: 1
Difficulty: Intermediate
Style: Classical
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