1892 compositions

The Nutcracker, Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll. The plot is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 short story The Tale of a Nutcracker, itself a retelling of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The ballet's first choreographer was Marius Petipa, with whom Tchaikovsky had worked three years earlier on The Sleeping Beauty, assisted by Lev Ivanov. Although the complete and staged The Nutcracker ballet was not initially as successful as the 20-minute Nutcracker Suite that Tchaikovsky had premiered nine months earlier, it became popular in later years.

aria from the opera Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo

musical work written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz

piano concerto by Rachmaninoff (original version)

Piano composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff

set of five piano solo pieces by Rachmaninoff

symphonic poem for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Jean Sibelius

tone poem by Jean Sibelius

symphony by Carl Nielsen

musical composition by Johannes Brahms

Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, opus 6

waltz composed by Johann Strauss II, opus 443

polka composed by Johann Strauss II (op. 449)

piano cycle composed by Johannes Brahms

musical composition by Edward Elgar

piano trio by Sergei Rachmaninoff