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Cinderella

Cinderella heroine of one of the most famous folktales in the world. She is rescued from a life of drudgery by her fairy godmother and eventually marries a handsome prince. The story (dating back to 9th-century China) exists in 500 versions in Europe alone; it was included by both Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers in their collections of tales.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Cinderella.
1. Various operas have been written based on Perrault's fairy-tale. See Cenerentola, La ( Rossini) and Cendrillon (Massenet).

2. (Zolushka). Ballet, with songs, by Prokofiev, comp. 1940–4, f.p. Moscow 1945. Also ballet by J. Strauss II.

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Cinderella a girl in various traditional European fairy tales. In the version by Charles Perrault she is exploited as a servant by her stepmother and stepsisters but enabled by a fairy godmother to attend a royal ball. She meets and captivates Prince Charming but has to flee at midnight, leaving the prince to identify her by the glass slipper which she leaves behind.

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