Sleeping Beauty, Op.66: Study score, Paperback

Newly edited and engraved study score for Tchaikovsky's second ballet masterpiece. Includes Preface, Synopsis, and Cast of Characters. This is the complete orchestral score, not a piano reduction, based upon the composer's autograph, the very rare first edition issued by P. Jurgenson, and the score from Tchaikovsky's complete works. This score includes variants not present in the Soviet score. Sleeping Beauty was propelled into the permanent ballet repertoire immediately after the brilliant 1889 premiere by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in St. Petersburg's Maryinsky Theatre. This new, reasonably priced study score that will be invaluable to students, conductors, music lovers and ballet aficionados everywhere.

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