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What do you know about The Original Nutcracker?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

(This post does contain affiliate links) Do<\/em> you know who wrote the original story of the Nutcracker? When did it become a ballet? Why is it a Christmas classic? How many versions are there? I have researched to find out more about the Original Nutcracker – my daughter says that is what I do, but I want to share some information about it with you. While you may know the music, and most of us do, the first time The Nutcracker was turned into a two-act ballet was in 1892. The choreographing was by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanova, and the now famous score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who Wrote the Original Nutcracker?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

However, what you probably don’t know is that the Original Nutcracker story was written years early in 1816.\u00a0The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was a story by E.T.A. Hoffman. He\u00a0was a German-born in Prussia, which is now Russia, and he was a lawyer and judge. His original story was much darker than the version we now know. His story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is about Marie Stahlbaum’s favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, which comes to life and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, takes her to a magical kingdom of dolls.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n