Petersburg at the time, approached Tchaikovsky to write an adaptation of Undine. Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Director of the Imperial Theaters in St. First performed in 1890, this is the second of his three ballets. It was absolutely fantastic,” Explains Mary Costa.Īs a fun fact, most of the musical score of the film is based upon Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Sleeping Beauty” ( pyashaya krasavitsa) is composed of a prologue and three acts. he could move from mood to mood seamlessly. “Tchaikovsky always fascinates me because he was dramatic, he had humour he had these luscious melodies.
However, there were several other musicians that had a musical hand in the creation of the Sleeping Beauty soundtrack Erdman Penner, Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, Sammy Fain, Jack Lawrence, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. All together these musicians create a splendid soundtrack that harmonized with this magical Disney film. It includes gorgeous songs such as “Hail to the Princess Aurora”, “One Gift”, “I Wonder”, “Once Upon a Dream”, “The Skumps Song”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Sleeping Beauty Ballet”, “Sing a Smiling Song”, The majority of the songs had music by George Bruns and lyrics by Tom Adair. There’s a reason that all but one of those previously mentioned awards are specifically for the music within the film. The soundtrack is beautiful. Beyond that, the film was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album, Original Cast - Motion Picture or Television (1959) Saturn Award for Best DVD Classic Film Release (2009), Satellite Awards for Best Overall Blu-Ray Disc and Best Youth DVD (2008), Young Artist Awards for Best Musical Entertainment Featuring Youth (1980). Sleeping Beauty won an Academy Award in 1960 for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. That long amount of work paid off in the terms of awards. The movie was finally released one to two years later, in 1959,” writes the IMDB profile of Sleeping Beauty. “Story work began in 1951, voices were recorded in 1952, the actual animation took place between 19, and the stereophonic score was recorded in 1957.
Altogether, the film itself took 8 years to complete. Although it was released in December 1959, it was in production for years longer than other Disney films. This Disney story is an adaptation of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”, as well as the Brothers Grimm’s retelling of the story, “Little Briar Rose”. Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Sleeping Beauty is one of Disney’s most iconic princess films.
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