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{{picture|file=Alexandre Dumas.jpg|caption='''Alexandre Dumas''' (1802-1870)}} | {{picture|file=Alexandre Dumas.jpg|caption='''Alexandre Dumas''' (1802-1870)}} | ||
French writer and playwright (b. 24 July 1802 at Villers-Cotterêts; d. 5 December 1870 at Puys), born '''''Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie''''', sometimes known as '''''Alexandre Dumas père''''' to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895). | French writer and playwright (b. 24 July 1802 {{NS}} at Villers-Cotterêts; d. 5 December 1870 {{NS}} at Puys), born '''''Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie''''', sometimes known as '''''Alexandre Dumas père''''' to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895). | ||
==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Dumas== | ==Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Dumas== | ||
Latest revision as of 21:24, 12 August 2023
French writer and playwright (b. 24 July 1802 [N.S.] at Villers-Cotterêts; d. 5 December 1870 [N.S.] at Puys), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, sometimes known as Alexandre Dumas père to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils (1824-1895).
Tchaikovsky's Settings of Works by Dumas
In 1891, Tchaikovsky wrote incidental music for a French production of Shakespeare's Hamlet in Saint Petersburg, in a translation by Alexandre Dumas and Paul Meurice (1818-1905) that had first been performed in Paris in 1847.
The libretto for Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (1891-92) was based on Dumas' story Histoire d'un Casse-Noisette (1845), which was an adaptation of Der Nußknacker und Mausekönig (1816) by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822).
