Which composer wrote the Sabre Dance and the ballet Spartacus?
Spartacus (ballet) Spartacus (ballet) Spartacus () is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record. Khachaturian composed Spartacus in 1954, and was awarded a Lenin Prize for the composition that same year. It was first staged, with choreography by Leonid Yakobson, in Leningrad 1956, but only with qualified success since Yakobson abandoned conventional "pointe" in his choreography. The ballet received its first staging at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow in 1958, choreographed
Spartacus (ballet) the "Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia". Aegina discovers Spartacus’s camp and observes the lovers emerging from their tent the next morning. Aegina sends word to Crassus, who sends his army in pursuit. Internecine struggles break out among Spartacus’s forces. Finally, Crassus’s forces discover Spartacus and impale him upon their spears. Spartacus’s closest followers recover his body and carry it off while Phrygia mourns her loss. Khachaturian extracted and arranged music from the ballet in 1955 for four orchestral suites: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, percussion ; strings. Spartacus (ballet)