Famous choreographer Marius Petipa wanted to compose the music for the tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Hoffman. So in 1891 he assigned Peter Tchaikovsky to compose this music. One year later the debut performance of “The Nutcracker” failed. Audience didn’t like it. So did the critics. After that time “The Nutcracker has been one of the most frequently world scale performed ballet. This ballet is being performed in every ballet company. Why this bad started ballet has such a success today? The explanation is simple. In 1950s another great choreographer George Balanchine produced a fresh version of “The Nutcracker” that is widely used today.
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Joseph Patelson Music House in Manhattan has attracted novices and masters of music. Around sixty years it was full with compositions of Bach, Mozart and Strauss. There were a lot of buyers who asked for the pieces of advice from specialists and at times crabbed sales clerks. The daughter-in-law of Joseph Patelson, Marsha, admits that she planned to close the shop and sell it. The house stands not far from the Carnegie Hall. Nowadays’ world of digital devices has made such places as Joseph Patelson Music House nothing more than a strange remnant.

Classical music is seen mainly as a written musical custom. It is stored in music notation. Although there are differences in performing certain types of classical music, classical music is commonly tends to surmount any rendering of it. Using musical notation is a powerful way to pass classical music from one person to another. Written music holds the technical explanations how to perform the work. Usually, classical music composers are remembered more than classical music performers. The importance of written notation in classical music is also explained by the fact that impromptu plays comparatively insignificant part in it.

When speaking about “Classical music”, most of us associate it with the music of upper class community. Notwithstanding the common beliefs that classical music symbolizes the upper-class community and only the rich could have an access to it, this opinion is false. Well, if this is true, then please tell me why the majority of classical musicians belong to middle class society and the visitors of concerts come from different social classes. Classical music was popular among common people even during the Classic Epoch. We often listen to classical music used in movies, TV Shows and ads and sometimes don’t know that.