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fairy tale

Genre of magical story, usually originating in folklore. Typically in European fairy tales, a poor, brave, and resourceful hero or heroine goes through testing adventures to eventual good fortune.

The Germanic tales collected by the Grimm brothers have been retold in many variants. Charles Perrault's retellings include ‘Cinderella’ and ‘The Sleeping Beauty’. The form may also be adapted for more individual moral and literary purposes, as was done by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Fairy Tale

Work by Leoš Janáček for cello and piano, inspired by the tale Czar Berendei by Vasili Zhukovski, first performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), on 13 March 1910, and revised about 1923.
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