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This dance was performed by the principal ballerina in all productions of the ballet during the composer's lifetime. The origins of this Pas de deux are described in Pavel Pchelnikov 's recollections of Tchaikovsky [16]. The former was told the story by the conductor Stepan Ryabov.
Without naming the ballerina, Pchelnikov reported that she went to Saint Petersburg to ask the balletmaster Marius Petipa if he could furnish her with a Pas de deux. The number was set to music by the composer Ludwig Minkus.
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Not wanting to allow music by others in his ballet, Tchaikovsky wrote his own Pas de deux , preserving the length and divisions of Minkus' piece [17]. The Introduction alone was arranged for piano solo by the composer in or , and this was published with Nikolay Kashkin 's arrangement of the rest of the ballet, which had been made at the request of Tchaikovsky himself. Would you like to hear it?
Albrecht will be there as well" [19]. Nikolay Kashkin wrote about his work on the arrangement in his memoirs: When he came to review it, the author simplified a few places of little musical importance, while elsewhere he even added a few grace notes. These additions could not be played on the piano, but, probably imagining the printed orchestral score of the ballet, the composer inserted these details simply because he took it into his head that the music would read better that way" [20].
In Tchaikovsky considered creating a suite from the music to Swan Lake , but it was only seven years after his death that such a suite was finally published, and it is unknown who made the selection of numbers. There are few surviving accounts by Tchaikovsky concerning his ballet.
None of Tchaikovsky's other stage works were subject to such changes and misrepresentation in productions as Swan Lake. Unfortunately, up to the present time it is still not possible to find materials which would show conclusively how the ballet was performed during the composer's lifetime.
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Some information can be gleaned by comparing posters from the first three productions of the ballet on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Judging by the list of dance numbers, Julius Reisinger did not introduce any significant changes to the full score. It is impossible to tell from the titles of the individual dances whether the music was authentic. Nevertheless, bearing in mind the history of the Pas de deux , we might suppose that at the first production the music was performed in accordance with the author's full score, apart from small changes in the order of numbers and, possibly, some cuts evidently a Pas de cinq and Pas de dix dances replaced the Pas de deux discussed above.
When the ballet was revived in , the choreographer Hansen took greater liberties with the score. It is not known whether he introduced new music, but in any case much of the music was cut, including the Pas de six in Act III. It seems that the plot of the ballet was also changed, judging from some annotations to the list of dances performed. Thus, Odette was transformed from a good fairy in the original version into a Queen of the Swans, and the appearance of the magician Rothbart in Act IV was not preserved from the first version.
At the time of the third production, in , Hansen introduced further changes, and added a new dance in Act III for the ballerina Lydia Geiten— Cosmopolitan , to music by Cesar Pugni, which had no relevance whatsoever to the ballet. This was the first production of a Russian ballet outside its native land, and it was repeated at the National Theatre a further seven times before the end of April [24].
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Although the version of the ballet widely promulgated in the 20th century originated after the composer's death, it still played an important part in popularising Tchaikovsky's music and revealing the musical dramaturgy of his first ballet. In the same year, Ivan Vsevolozhsky decided to produce the complete ballet, and asked Modest Tchaikovsky to rewrite the libretto [25].
I hope that you have managed to leave out the flood in the last scene All this is confusing. I cannot order the scenery until the story is decided upon, but there is plenty of time" [26]. For this production, three piano pieces by Tchaikovsky were inserted into the ballet, namely Nos.
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Moderato assai 62 bars Act I 1. Allegro giusto bars 2. Tempo di Valse bars 3. Allegro moderato bars 4. Pas de trois I. Allegro 68 bars II. Andante sostenuto 66 bars III. Allegro semplice 72 bars IV. Moderato 40 bars V.
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Allegro 59 bars VI. Allegro vivace 64 bars 5. Pas de deux I.
Tempo di Valse ma non troppo vivo quasi Moderato bars II. Andante bars III. Tempo di Valse 88 bars IV. Allegro molto vivace bars 6. Andantino quasi Moderato 75 bars 7. Sujet 16 bars 8. Tempo di Polacca bars 9. Andante 49 bars Act II Moderato 76 bars Allegro moderato—Moderato—Allegro vivo bars Allegro 96 bars Danses des cygnes I. Tempo di Valse bars II. Moderato assai 50 bars III. Tempo di Valse bars IV. Allegro moderato 38 bars V. Andante—Andante non troppo bars VI. V from Act II - first bars, with new 7-bar codetta added] Czardas: A Full score, pages.
Piano 4 hands arr. Langer , 61 pages. Langer , 33 pages. Retrieved from " http: For the complete ballet from which this concert suite was extracted, see Swan Lake ballet , Op.