Nutcracker Suite, March (violin viola duo)

Title: March, from the ballet The Nutcracker

Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin and Viola

Printout: 6 pages

Note: The Nutcracker is one of the most beloved ballets and one of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works. This march is heard early in the ballet, during the party scene. Much of the ballet score is too contrapuntal to be played by two instruments, but the March works remarkably well.