Swan Lake

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Music · 1877 · Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre · Eastern Europe & Russia

Symphonic music in ballet instead of mere accompaniment; the world's most-performed ballet

Author

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Style

Romanticism — Feeling and the elements over reason: the lone hero, storm, ruins and the national past

Century

19th century

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