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Der Nussknacker

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" The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" ( German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a story written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker.

The story begins on Christmas Eve, at the Stahlbaum house. Marie, seven, and her brother, Fritz, sit outside the parlour speculating about what kind of present their godfather, Drosselmeyer, who is a clockmaker and inventor, has made for them. They are at last allowed in, where they receive many splendid gifts, including Drosselmeyer's, which turns out to be a clockwork castle with mechanical people moving about inside it. However, as they can only do the same thing over and over without variation, the children quickly tire of it. At this point, Marie notices a nutcracker, and asks to whom he belongs. Her father tells her that he belongs to all of them, but that since she is so fond of him she will be his special caretaker. She, Fritz, and their sister, Louise, pass him amongst themselves, cracking nuts, until Fritz tries to crack one that is too big and hard, and his jaw breaks. Marie, upset, takes him away and bandages him with a ribbon from her dress.

When it is time for bed, the children put their Christmas gifts away in the special cabinet where they keep their toys. Fritz and Louise go up to bed, but Marie begs to be allowed to stay with the nutcracker a while longer, and she is allowed to do so. She puts him to bed and tells him that Drosselmeyer will fix his jaw as good as new. At this, his face seems momentarily to come alive, and Marie is frightened, but she then decides it was only her imagination.

The grandfather clock begins to chime, and Marie believes she sees Drosselmeyer sitting on top of it, preventing it from striking. Mice begin to come out from beneath the floor boards, including the seven-headed Mouse King. The dolls in the toy cabinet come alive and begin to move, the nutcracker taking command and leading them into battle after putting Marie's ribbon on as a token. The battle goes to the dolls at first, but they are eventually overwhelmed by the mice. Marie, seeing the nutcracker about to be taken prisoner, takes off her slipper and throws it at the Mouse King. She then faints into the toy cabinet's glass door, cutting her arm badly.

Marie wakes up in her bed the next morning with her arm bandaged and tries to tell her parents about the battle between the mice and the dolls, but they do not believe her, thinking that she has had a fever dream caused by the wound she sustained from the broken glass. Several days later, Drosselmeyer arrives with the nutcracker, whose jaw has been fixed, and tells Marie the story of Princess Pirlipat and Madam Mouserinks, who is also known as the Queen of the Mice, which explains how nutcrackers came to be and why they look the way they do.

The Mouse Queen tricked Pirlipat's mother into allowing her and her children to gobble up the lard that was supposed to go into the sausage that the King was to eat at dinner that evening. The King, enraged at the Mouse Queen for spoiling his supper and upsetting his wife, had his court inventor, whose name happens to be Drosselmeyer, create traps for the Mouse Queen and her children.

The Mouse Queen, angered at the death of her children, swore that she would take revenge on Pirlipat. Pirlipat's mother surrounded her with cats which were supposed to be kept awake by being constantly stroked, however inevitably the nurses who did so fell asleep and the Mouse Queen magically turned Pirlipat ugly, giving her a huge head, a wide grinning mouth, and a cottony beard like a nutcracker. The King blamed Drosselmeyer and gave him four weeks to find a cure. At the end, he had no cure but went to his friend, the court astrologer.

They read Pirlipat's horoscope and told the King that the only way to cure her was to have her eat the nut Crackatook (Krakatuk), which must be cracked and handed to her by a man who had never been shaved nor worn boots since birth, and who must, without opening his eyes hand her the kernel and take seven steps backwards without stumbling. The King sent Drosselmeyer and the astrologer out to look for both, charging them on pain of death not to return until they had found them.

The two men journeyed for many years without finding either the nut or the man, until finally they returned home to Nuremberg and found the nut in the possession of Drosselmeyer's cousin, a puppet-maker. His son turned out to be the young man needed to crack the nut Crackatook. The King, once the nut had been found, promised Pirlipat's hand to whoever could crack it. Many men broke their teeth on it before Drosselmeyer's nephew finally appeared. He cracked it easily and handed it to Pirlipat, who swallowed it and immediately became beautiful again, but Drosselmeyer's nephew, on his seventh backward step, stepped on the Mouse Queen and stumbled, and the curse fell on him, giving him a large head, wide grinning mouth, and cottony beard; in short, making him a nutcracker. The ungrateful and unsympathetic Pirlipat, seeing how ugly he had become, refused to marry him and banished him from the castle.

Marie, while she recuperates from her wound, hears the Mouse King, son of the deceased Madam Mouserinks, whispering to her in the middle of the night, threatening to bite the nutcracker to pieces unless she gives him her sweets and dolls. For the nutcracker's sake, she sacrifices them, but then he wants more and more. Finally, the nutcracker tells her that if she will just get him a sword, he will finish off the Mouse King. She asks Fritz for one, and he gives her the one from one of his toy hussars. The next night, the nutcracker comes into Marie's room bearing the Mouse King's seven crowns, and takes her away with him to the doll kingdom, where she sees many wonderful things. She eventually falls asleep in the nutcracker's palace and is brought back home. She tries to tell her mother what happened, but again she is not believed, even when she shows her parents the seven crowns, and she is forbidden to speak of her "dreams" anymore.

Marie sits in front of the toy cabinet one day while Drosselmeyer is repairing one of her father's clocks. While looking at the nutcracker and thinking about all the wondrous things that happened, she can't keep silent anymore and swears to him that if he were ever really real she would never behave as Pirlipat did, and would love him whatever he looked like. At this, there is a bang and she faints and falls off the chair. Her mother comes in to tell her that Drosselmeyer's nephew has arrived from Nuremberg. He takes her aside and tells her that by swearing that she would love him in spite of his looks, she broke the curse on him and made him human again. He asks her to marry him. She accepts, and in a year and a day he comes for her and takes her away to the doll kingdom, where she marries him and is crowned queen.

Composer Carl Reinecke created eight pieces based on the story as early as 1855. The pieces would be performed with narration telling a short adaptation of the story.

The Nutcracker (Histoire d'un casse-noisette, 1844) is a retelling by Alexandre Dumas, père of the Hoffmann tale, nearly identical in plot. This was the version used as the basis for the 1892 Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker, but Marie's name is usually changed to Clara in most subsequent adaptations.

The story was adapted for BBC Radio in four weekly 30-minute episodes by Brian Sibley, with original music by David Houston and broadcast 9 December to 30 December 1991 on BBC Radio 5, later re-broadcast 27 December to 30 December 2010 on BBC Radio 7. The cast included Tony Robinson as "The Nutcracker", Edward de Souza as "Drosselmeyer", Eric Allen as "The Mouse King", James Grout as "The King" and Angela Shafto as "Mary".

The story was issued as a storybook and tape in the Once Upon a Time fairy tale series.

The Nutcracker (Polish: Dziadek do orzechów) is a 1967 film directed by Halina Bielińska.

It was also adapted into the 1979 stop motion film Nutcracker Fantasy, the traditional animation films Schelkunchik (Russia, 1973), and The Nutcracker Prince (Canada, 1990) and the 2010 film The Nutcracker in 3D.

There is a German animated direct-to-video version of the story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, released in 2004, which was dubbed into English by Anchor Bay Entertainment, with Leslie Nielson as The Mouse King and Eric Idle as Drosselmeyer. It uses only a small portion of Tchaikovsky's music and adapts the Hoffmann story very loosely. The English version was the last project of veteran voice actor, Tony Pope, before his death in 2004.

In Mickey Mouse Works, the Mickey Mouse Nutcracker is an adaptation of this tale, with Minnie Mouse playing Marie, Mickey playing the Nutcracker, Ludwig Von Drake playing Drosselmeyer, albeit very briefly, and Donald Duck playing the Mouse King.

The Enchanted Nutcracker (1961) is a made-for-TV adaptation of the tale, written in the style of a Broadway musical, starring Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence. It was shown once as a Christmas special, and never repeated.

In 2001, a direct-to-DVD CGI-animated movie, Barbie in the Nutcracker, was made by Mattel Entertainment starring Barbie in her first-ever movie and features the voices of Kelly Sheridan as Barbie/Clara/Sugarplum Princess and Kirby Morrow as the Nutcracker/Prince Eric.

In 2010, The Nutcracker in 3D - a live-action film, based only loosely on the original story - was released.

The Nutcracker (2013) is New Line's live-action version of the story reimagined as a drama with action and a love story. It was directed by Adam Shankman and written by Darren Lemke.

Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is a 2007 holiday themed animated direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

In 2012, Big Fish Games published a computer game Christmas Stories: The Nutcracker inspired by the story.

In 1988, Care Bears Nutcracker Suite is based on the story.

On December 25, 2015, German television station ARD aired a new live-action adaptation of the story as part of the 6 auf einen Streich (Six in one Stroke) television series.

Disney's 2018 live-action film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is a retelling of the story; it is directed by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston.

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King - Wikipedia

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" The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" ( German: Nussknacker und Mausekönig) is a story written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.

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Der Brief, den du geschrieben,
Er macht mich gar nicht bang;
Du willst mich nicht mehr lieben,
Aber dein Brief ist lang.

Zwölf Seiten, eng und zierlich!
Ein kleines Manuskript!
Man schreibt nicht so ausführlich,
Wenn man den Abschied gibt.

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https://youtu.be/9E6b3swbnWg?si=VnV_2KnxaPw2Dhru

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Swan lake

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https://youtu.be/bkxDZw6z1gg?si=ObCIB3zOCX-iih-0

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Rimski-Korsakow Hummelflug | Berliner Symphoniker | OverTiere | flight of the bumblebee

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Und ich hör' dieselben Klagen
und ich hör' dieselbe Lust
und ich fühl' das Herz mir schlagen
hier wie dort in meiner Brust.

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I.

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

II.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

III.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

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Má vlast  : II. Vltava (The Moldau) , B111 (1874)

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Má vlast (1989 Remastered Version) : II. Vltava (The Moldau) , B111 (1874)

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Hymne an die Nacht

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Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste (orch.Herbert von Karajan)

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Lyric Pieces, Book I, Op. 12: No. 1, Arietta

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Issa sea hübsch

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https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achim_von_Arnim

Sieger der Welt ist Alexander kommen

Zum Abendstrand der Welt,

Zum Greis hinaufgeklommen,

Der ihm sein Zeichen stellt.

Sterne des Tages sich ihm zuerst da zeigen,

Nun sieht er erst das Meer,

Sieht Well' auf Welle steigen,

Und alles Treiben leer.

Kreise im Kreis der Alte ruhig drehet,

Und er versteht sie nicht,

Sein Blick sich da ergehet,

Wo Meer zum Himmel dicht.

Schwindelnd er sieht vom steilen Felsen nieder

Die aufgethane Lust,

Wie alles schwingt die Glieder

Und alles drehen mußt'.

»Künde mir, Greis, ist nichts mehr zu vollbringen,

Ist hier begränzt die Welt?

Kann ich zum Thron nicht dringen,

Der leuchtend hingestellt?«

Halte den Muth und fürchte nur dich selber,

Du König aller Welt,

Die Eiche stürzet Wälder,

Wenn sie herniederfällt.

Eines du thust, und willst es doch gern meiden,

Den Vater tödtest du,

Die Welt soll dir's verleiden,

Den Menschen zählen zu.[7]

Nieder hinab, du Schänder meines Glaubens,

Vom Gott ich rein entsproß,

Sink' mit den wilden Tauben

Und lüg' im Meeresschooß.

»Dank sei dir, Sohn, du bist's, ich sterb' dein Vater,

Versöhn' den Göttern dich,

Die deines Glückes, deiner Thaten

Voll Neid erzürnten sich.«

Wahrlich der Baum erstirbt in hohem Glücke,

Den Schößlingsschatten stickt,

So glänzt im höchsten Blicke,

Den Sohnes Licht erdrückt.

Wissen stürz Wissen war des Alten Wille,

Das Wissen wird gebeugt

In tiefe Meeresstille,

Wenn es das Thun gezeugt.

Also gelagert scheinen alle Flötze

Des Weltbaus Schicht auf Schicht,

Er folget dem Gesetze:

»Das Höchste komm zum Licht.«

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Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home:
At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth,
Like to bubbles when rain pelteth;
Then let winged Fancy wander
Through the thought still spread beyond her:

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So lebten sie still und unverdrossen fort, und noch oft nachher, als Peter Munk schon graue Haare hatte, sagte er: »Es ist doch besser, zufrieden zu sein mit wenigem, als Gold und Güter haben und ein kaltes Herz.«

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Die Heimat des englischen Landschaftsmalers

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Wo ist die Hand so zart, daß ohne Irren

Wo ist die Hand so zart, dass ohne Irren
Sie sondern mag beschränkten Hirnes Wirren,
So fest, daß ohne Zittern sie den Stein
Mag schleudern auf ein arm verkümmert Sein?
Wer wagt es, eitlen Blutes Drang zu messen,
Zu wägen jedes Wort, das unvergessen
In junge Brust die zähen Wurzeln trieb,
Des Vorurteils geheimen Seelendieb?
Du Glücklicher, geboren und gehegt
Im lichten Raum, von frommer Hand gepflegt,
Leg hin die Waagschal, nimmer dir erlaubt!
Laß rahn den Stein - er trifft dein eignes Haupt!

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hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

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Rachmaninow: Die Toteninsel ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Edward Gardner

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Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1, MS 25 - No. 24 in A Minor

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Die Liebe

Wenn ihr Freunde vergeßt, wenn ihr die Euern all
O ihr Dankbaren, sie, euere Dichter schmäht,
Gott vergeb' es, doch ehret
Nur die Seele der Liebenden.

Denn o saget, wo lebt menschliches Leben sonst
Da die knechtische jetzt alles, die Sorge zwingt?
Darum wandelt der Gott auch
Sorglos über dem Haupt uns längst.

Doch, wie immer das Jahr kalt und gesanglos ist
Zur beschiedenen Zeit, aber aus weißem Feld
Grüne Halme doch sprossen
Und ein einsamer Vogel singt,

Und sich mählich der Wald dehnet, der Strom sich regt,
Schon die mildere Luft leise von Mittag weht
Zur erlesenen Stunde,
So ein Zeichen der schönern Zeit,

Die wir glauben, erwächst einziggenügsam noch,
Einzig edel und fromm über dem ehernen,
Wilden Boden die Liebe,
Gottes Tochter, von ihm allein.

Sei gesegnet, o sei, himmlische Pflanze, mir
Mit Gesange gepflegt, wenn des ätherischen
Nektars Kräfte dich nähren,
Und der schöpfrische Strahl dich reift.

Wachs und werde zum Wald! eine beseeltere,
Vollentblühende Welt! Sprache der Liebenden
Sei die Sprache des Landes,
Ihre Seele der Laut des Volks!

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Ungewisse Hoffnung

Soll ich harren? soll mein Herz
Endlich brechen?
Soll ich niemals von dem Schmerz
Meines Busens sprechen?

Warum Zittern? Warum Zagen?
Träges Weilen?
Auf! dein höchstes Glück zu wagen!
Flügle deine Eile!

Suchen werd' ich: werd' ich finden?
Nach der Ferne Ferne,
Treibt das Herz; durch blühnde Linden
Lächeln dir die Sterne.

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gustav mahler kompositionen - Search Videos

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Das zerbrochene Ringlein

Sie hat mir Treu versprochen,
Gab mir ein’n Ring dabei,
Sie hat die Treu’ gebrochen,
Mein Ringlein sprang entzwei.

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Verdi - Ballabile from aida act II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6IdLoqyb_c

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Symphony No.9

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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" / Karajan · Berliner Philharmoniker