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Peter I. Tschaikovsky composed "The Nutcracker" as both a Ballet and as an orchestral suite.



There are no spoken words in ballets, but the music for The Nutcracker was composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The original choreography for the ballet was done by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. He was born on May 7, 1840 and died November 6, 1893. He composed the music for three ballets: The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake.

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I believe that the music for the Nutcracker was written by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky

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Tchaikovsky

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