The one I remember is Sleeping Beauty. Apparently Jakob und Wilhelm decided that a story centred on the practice of necrophilia might not be such a hot seller, hence the sanitised version we are familiar with.

And thank heavens they did. Life would be grim, indeed, without Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty suite. Or the Nutcracker suite. Or the Romeo and Juliet suite. Hang on, that last one was Billy the Bard, wasn't it. Damn, analogy ain't what it used to be.


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