A Brief History of The Nutcracker: Tchaikovsky, Dumas, and Hoffmann

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The Nutcracker. A story that spawned a thousand childrens books and countless adaptations for the stage, and then eventually made it to the silver screen. But, the origins of the Nutcracker isn’t the history of one nutcracker story. In fact, it is a history of four different nutcrackers.
We look at the origins of the nutcracker as a short story by E.T.A. Hoffman in the early 1800s, then to the remake of the story by Alexandre Dumas later in the century. Then the story is picked up by Marius Petipa and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to turn it into a ballet. However, that does not go as planned and it won't be until the mid 20th century when George Balanchine creates his version of the nutcracker ballet that the idea starts to catch on.
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@Hailey_Paige_1937 2 жыл бұрын

Critics: “The Nutcracker is terrible and cannot be classified as a ballet.” Stravinsky and Nijinsky: “Allow us to introduce ourselves.” 😂

@culbycove4963 9 ай бұрын

One critic after the Rite premiere: “Ow my leg”

@Macvriendin 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this historical background story of the Nutcracker! 👍

@dottieclogg8576 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your thorough background and well produced video on The Nutcracker. I will be using it in my elementary music class.

@lizbajork8018 3 жыл бұрын

I’m watching the nutcracker from the Rochester NY ballet company streaming. It is beautiful!

@akshaygiram 4 жыл бұрын

Good work. Such stuff is hard for us to find. Thanks for the presentations.

@matthewtravisano1097 2 жыл бұрын

Hold up. ‘The Nutrcacker’ was popularized in the U.S. way before Balanchine. Lew Christensen and San Francisco Ballet reintroduced it into the standard repertoire in 1944. San Francisco Ballet’s is the longest continuous professional staging of the work.

@MattPointO 4 жыл бұрын

Here from Ellie's channel! WOW! what playlist!

@brianhan9483 5 жыл бұрын

Love your work! Although theory interests me, I really like your music history videos!

@IKongILoX 2 жыл бұрын

Very educational video! Thank you a lot ! Helped a lot for the preparation for my first ever Ballet

@karinabreyer9832 4 жыл бұрын

Who else is here because they have nutcracker auditions in a few months and ARE SO PUMPED! Just me. Okay

@master-baiter22 3 жыл бұрын

Nope I’m forced against my will to watch this for choir

@wongpy9593 3 жыл бұрын

me! im already in but my teacher wants me to get into character. apparently im not spanish enough xD

@gabrielleangelica1977 2 жыл бұрын

Good luck! 🍀

@kmlumd44 2 жыл бұрын

Audition to work passing out popcorn there

@skyfast610 2 жыл бұрын

nahh I'll have English test on nutcracker

@kartikazoldyck7946 5 жыл бұрын

this deserves more views! great job! i love your work

@Oddquartet 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙏

@liamorourke2445 2 жыл бұрын

i’m seeing this play at butler university in indiana today. i’m excited

@laurawilson9163 4 жыл бұрын

My whole life, 53 years, I’ve only known “Clara” as the main character. Who is this Marie?!?!? When did she come into the picture?

@simondesbiens2463 4 жыл бұрын

Marie was her original names that all

@PlaceForFaith 3 жыл бұрын

In the book her name is Maria. Clara was the name of one of her dolls that came to life during the mouse king fight. I think people liked the name Clara more and switched it.

@davemorgan6013 3 жыл бұрын

In Hoffmann's story she's called Marie, but Hoffmann wrote the story for the children of Julius Eduard Hitzig and their names were Friedrich and Clara. So, that's where Clara comes from.

@Topdoggie7 4 ай бұрын

1816 is when Marie started.

@bruhmaster6915 7 ай бұрын

I just watched the nutcracker and I was sitting there thinking “there’s gotta be an analysis of this bc I’m kinda confused by who’s who.”

@6harrylotter785 5 жыл бұрын

The Nutcracker, please. The Nutshack... now that was a masterpiece The Nut Job... that was a true beauty.....

@noahperkins3 5 жыл бұрын

lmao

@Ariana-ch1ku 3 жыл бұрын

I just got casted as clara🥰

@ruben1475 3 жыл бұрын

Yesterday I saw the Royal Opera's 2016 performance of The Nutcracker, and while I loved it I can understand why it flopped at the premiere. While Act 1 was reasonably well paced storywise, in my opinion Act 2 just seemed to drag on without going anywhere. I think the story was more like a framework for the music and ballet instead of vice versa, but I respect that because it is still wonderful.

@davemorgan6013 3 жыл бұрын

It's not unusual for the final act of ballets to be just a series of divertissements with no real plot. Delibes' ballet Coppelia is another example of that.

@markbeck8384 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Could you tell us where the Swan Lake story came from, and if the original version had an altered story. I heard once that there was originally an evil stepmother?? Also, is there a definitive ending? I've seen lots of versions.

@curtthegamer934 Жыл бұрын

The evil stepmother thing is a stupid lie that's been copied to several different articles as if it's a fact (mostly because a lot of people don't bother reading the book to verify it). Marie had a normal family. There was no evil stepmother. I've seen that lie appear in so many articles now that it's not even funny.

@Topdoggie7 4 ай бұрын

No evil stepmother in Nutcracker.

@RolanDevious 4 жыл бұрын

i heard the nutcracker music odd quartet at 6:40 the nutcracker music sounds like the volume is low i can still hear it

@hoochrocks Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this.

@capribreezee 2 жыл бұрын

The ballet was like the first collab

@siewheilou399 7 ай бұрын

So it is only since 1954 that Nutcracker is accepted as a ballet performance?

@Love6Justin 3 жыл бұрын

Could you do one on swan lake? :) that was fascinating thank u

@171QA 2 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@user-eu3op7or6v 7 ай бұрын

So interesting 🧐

@ileilanambingaamtheleader1154 3 жыл бұрын

Time 1:04 The Stahlbaum family are the Kuso family(Bakugan). Marie is Dan Kuso, the 7 headed mouse King is Gordegon from Season 4 of Bakugan. The Nutcracker/Prince is Drago makes sense both turned into another shape and then grow bigger later on. Time 1:54 is New Vestroia :)

@ElenaBeges 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! I know nutcracker originally premiered in us in San Francisco in the 40s. Per this movie, that would have been before balanchines staging. So, nutcracker was still widespread and hade some popularity before Balanchine - yes? Did San Francisco and other companies change their staging after balanchines nutcracker?

@Raghallach 4 жыл бұрын

it was first performed in Saint Petersburg Russia on 18 December 1892, not San Francisco in the 40's.

@andrushkalm 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, very much so. It was dropped from the Imperial Theater around one year after the premiere and revived a few times after that. In 1919, Alexander Gorsky made his production for the Bolshoi Theater, making a lot of changes in the original Petipa/Ivanov choreography. Also in 1934, Vainonen made his famous version of the ballet for the Kirov (Mariinsky Theater) in St. Petersburg, which is danced to this day. The changes Gorsky made were kept and taken to almost every other production that came after his. So yes, The Nutcracker was very widespread before Balanchine.

@andrushkalm 3 жыл бұрын

Balanchine himself danced the original Petipa production, keeping some original parts to his own production. Which makes me understand why The Nutcracker was so hated at the time. I personally don’t like Balanchine’s version.

@nataliya2641 8 ай бұрын

Thank you from Moscow.

@TheRadioAteMyTV Жыл бұрын

Alexander was no DumAs

@octahedron115 5 жыл бұрын

Do the entry of the gladiators

@ViktorVaughn. 3 жыл бұрын

hoffman is real champ

@dan020350 5 ай бұрын

❤

@williamokafor1750 3 жыл бұрын

6:44

@thewonderfulworldofderek6087 4 жыл бұрын

30th anniversary years nutcracker history home review Intrvew 50th anniversary celebration

@danamarvelstar 2 жыл бұрын

So where does the name Clara come in?

@curtthegamer934 Жыл бұрын

I have never been able to figure it out. I've always been puzzled as to why the name was changed at all, since you never hear the names spoken on stage anyway, so anybody who isn't already aware of the names would probably just call her "the girl" or "the protagonist." I've seen her variously called, depending on the performance, Marie, Maria, Mary, Masha, Clara, and Klara. Clara is the most common name, but it's not even always the one used today in every production. Also, I still refer to the character as Marie because I grew up on the original book.

@Topdoggie7 4 ай бұрын

1900s area, added in as it aged.

@jamesaldrich7133 2 жыл бұрын

But Tchaikovsky your one of the reasons for the nutcracker story existence

@rockinresurrection6542 Жыл бұрын

Nah not really. Only the music

@Topdoggie7 4 ай бұрын

Just the music.

@thewonderfulworldofderek6087 4 жыл бұрын

1993 movie wb studios years History

@avidnongetit8710 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very well done. I still only like 4 musicals though 1 Westside Story 2 Rocky Horror Picture show 2 Tommy 4 Jesus Christ superstar 5 Hair Spray Yup I'm old

@mytoenailjustfelloff8997 4 жыл бұрын

avid Non you do realise that a ballett has absolutely nothing to do with a musical right? Theyre in no way comparable...

@karinabreyer9832 4 жыл бұрын

Mytoenail Justfelloff Actually they are very comparable. They aren’t super similar tho. Tho not have music, dancing, a story to tell, etc

@Topdoggie7 4 ай бұрын

O L D.

@williamokafor1750 3 жыл бұрын

1:32

@katiehickey4539 2 жыл бұрын

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