Late Romantic / Russian · 1900
Flight of the Bumblebee
N. Rimsky-Korsakov
- Key
- Am
- Time
- 2/4
- Tempo
- ♩=152
- AO focus
- AO3
Incipit
Form
Orchestral interlude from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Frantic chromatic semiquaver figuration.
Teaching points
- Chromatic perpetual motion
- Programmatic — Prince transforms into bumblebee
- AO3: showpiece writing
Full score ↓Public domain
Bessel + later urtext, PD.