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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
is a
story
written in 1816, by
E. T. A. Hoffmann
in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite
Christmas
toy
, the
Nutcracker
, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by
dolls
. In 1892, the
Russian
composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
and
choreographers
Marius Petipa
and
Lev Ivanov
turned
Alexandre Dumas père
's adaptation of the story into the
ballet
The Nutcracker
, which became one of Tchaikovsky's most famous compositions, and perhaps the most popular ballet in the world.
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