dec 18, 1892 - Nutcracker
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Tchaïkovski
Fist ballet to use the celesta aka the bell-piano, invented in 1886 by the Parisian harmonium builder Auguste Mustel. Tchaikovsky is an early adopter of this instrument, he had already used it in his symphonic poem The Voyevoda in 1891.
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