Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy for Quintet and Celeste by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky, pub. Cherry

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Is this neat!! A first ever transcription for Brass Quintet and Celeste (or Synth, Organ, Piano) of Tchaikowsky's famous Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies. This arrangement works!!

Get your mutes out and have a load of fun at your next Christmas concert. The audience will love this one almost as much as you!

If you don't have a Celeste, try a synth, organ or piano up an octave works well also.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893 was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

Born into a middle-class family, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant, despite his obvious musical precocity. He pursued a musical career against the wishes of his family, entering the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and graduating in 1865. This formal, Western-oriented training set him apart from the contemporary nationalistic movement embodied by the influential group of young Russian composers known as The Five, with whom Tchaikovsky's professional relationship was mixed.