Swan Lake, was the first of Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores, composed between August 1875 and April 1876, with additions and revisions in February and April 1877. The ballet’s original title, as indicated on the manuscript score, was The Lake of Swans or Lake of the Swans, and its story derives from a German fairy tale.
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