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Something wrong?He wrote the story that became The Nutcracker - but the dark fairy tales, gothic horror, and crime fiction he pioneered in early 19th-century Germany were stranger and sharper than any sugar-plum dream.
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, The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.
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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann on 24 January 1776 in Germany, and worked as a jurist, composer, and music critic before his fiction made him central to the Romantic movement. His short story "The Sandman" became a pioneering work of horror, and his novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi is regarded as one of the earliest examples of crime fiction. He wrote The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, which Tchaikovsky turned into a ballet, and his stories became the basis for Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which a fictionalized version of Hoffmann appears as the hero. Schumann's Kreisleriana drew on his character Johannes Kreisler, and the ballet Coppélia adapted two more of his tales. He died on 25 June 1822, leaving a body of fantasy and gothic work that shaped 19th-century literature.
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