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However, people may not know that there are fifteen versions of the ballet, and that its first choreography in Moscow in 1877 was a failure and a disappointment for the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who had put all his time and effort into the work's orchestration and melodic writing.
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Instrumentation. Swan Lake is scored for the typical late 19th-century large orchestra: Strings: violins I and II; violas, violoncellos; double basses. Woodwinds: piccolo; 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets in B♭, A and C; 2 bassoons.He made use of material from The Voyevoda, an opera that he had abandoned in 1868. The Grand adage (a.k.a. the Love Duet) from the second scene of Swan Lake was fashioned from an aria from that opera, as was the Valse des fiancées from the third scene.
