La boîte à joujoux

La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box) is a ballet score by Claude Debussy.

The composer completed the work as a piano score, but he died before he was able to orchestrate it.

[1] In 1913, Debussy was approached by the artist and writer André Hellé, who had devised a ballet scenario from his children’s tale La boîte à joujoux.

[1] The work, which plays for about half an hour, is in seven sections:[1] Of the toys in Hellé's box there are three principals, to each of whom Debussy gives a little leitmotiv: a toy soldier, a pretty doll, and a foolish and quarrelsome polichinelle.

She nurses the soldier, falls in love with him, and they marry and live happily ever after.