![]() ![]() ![]() By now, everyone, including Marie, had to know that the dainty little man was an offspring of the dynasty of Nutcrackers and was practicing his profession. When told to do so, Marie inserted a nut and-Crack! Crack!-he chewed up the nut, so that the shell dropped away, and the sweet kernel itself ended up in Marie’s hand. And he should belong to Luise as much as he belongs to you and to Fritz.” The father then removed him cautiously from the table and, raising the wooden cape aloft, the manikin opened his mouth wide, wide, and showed two rows of very sharp, very tiny white teeth. He should crack the hard nuts for us nicely. Hoffmann also influenced 19th-century musical opinion directly through his music criticism. “He, dear child, should work hard for all of us. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (1892) is based on 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', and the ballet Copplia, with music by Delibes, is based on two eerie Hoffmann stories. ![]() “Ah! Dear Father! Who owns that darling little man over on the tree there?” “He,” the father answered. ![]()
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