The Tale of Tsar Saltan (opera) (Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay)

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Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

For Violin and Orchestra
Performer Pages Isaac Stern (violin)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
Milton Katims (conductor)
Publisher Info. None but the lonely heart: Isaac Stern plays great violin favorites
New York: Columbia, 1963. MS 6496.
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Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

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Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d.[1904]. Plate 4882.
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933–70). Catalog A4621.
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Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

Editor Alan Chen
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Misc. Notes "Revised edition"
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Editor Nate Deuel (b. 2002)
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Pit-Orchestra

29 more: Flute 2 • Oboe 1 • Oboe 2 • English Horn • Clarinet 1 (A/B♭) • Clarinet 2 (A/B♭) • Clarinet 3/Bass Clarinet (A/B♭) • Bassoon 1 • Bassoon 2 • Contrabassoon • Horn 1 (F) • Horn 2 (F) • Horn 3 (F) • Horn 4 (F) • Trumpet 1 (A/B♭) • Trumpet 2 (A/B♭) • Trumpet 3 (A/B♭) • Trombone 1 • Trombone 2 • Trombone 3 • Tuba • Timpani • Glockenspiel/Xylophone • Triangle/Tam-Tam • Snare Drum/Tambourine • Cymbals/Bass Drum • Celesta • Harp 1 • Harp 2

Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d.(ca.1904). MPR
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933–70). Catalog A4621.
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Offstage Instruments

4 more: Trumpet 2 (B♭) • Trumpet 3 (B♭) • Bells • Bass Drum

Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d.(ca.1904). MPR
Reprinted New York: E.F. Kalmus, n.d.(1933–70). Catalog A4621.
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Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

11 more: Oboe 1/2/English Horn • Clarinet 1/2 (A) • Bassoon 1/2 • Horn 1/2, 3/4 (F) • Trumpet 1/2 • Trombones 1/2, 3/Tuba • Timpani/Cymbals • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos/Basses

Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d. Plate 5726.
Reprinted London: Chester Novello, n.d.
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Vocal Scores

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11 more: Preliminaries • Prologue • Introduction to Act I • Act I • Introduction to Act II • Act II • Act III, Scene 1 • Act III, Scene 2 • Act IV, Scene 1 • Introduction to Last Scene • Act IV, Scene 2 (with outside back cover)

Language Russian / German
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d.(ca.1901). Plate 4849.
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Misc. Notes Censor's date 13 July 1900, 1910 copyright claim.
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Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d.(ca.1901). Plate 4849.
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Misc. Notes Excerpted from Act III, Scene 1, of the original piano-vocal score.
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Editor James Brigham (b. 1974)
Publisher. Info. James Brigham, 2017.
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Misc. Notes Source: St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d. (1901). Plate 4849. Typeset to match the IMSLP upload #29126. For comments on this engraving see my account on musescore.com.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

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For Piano (Schaefer)
Arranger Aleksandr Schaefer (1866–1914)
Editor First edition
Language Russian (supra-linear text)
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d.(ca.1900-1901). Plate 4920.
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Misc. Notes Original images: ca.350dpi, color jp2 files approx. 2915 by 4115 pixels. Editing: re-sampled to 600dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. Censor's date of 1900 on cover page.
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For Piano 4 hands (Rimskaya-Korsakova)

Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

For Theatre Orchestra (Finck)
Arranger Herman Finck (1872–1939)
Publisher. Info. London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1926. Plate H. & S. 6471.
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Misc. Notes The Flight of the Bumblebee
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For Orchestra (Johnson)

11 more: Flute 1, 2 • Oboe, English Horn • Clarinet 1, 2 (B♭) • Bassoon 1, 2 • Horn 1, 2 (F) • Trumpet (B♭) • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos • Basses

Arranger Charles Anthony Johnson (b. 1939)
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For 4 Recorders (Olschewski)

4 more: Alto Recorder 1 • Alto Recorder 2 • Tenor Recorder • Bass Recorder

Arranger Maximilian Olschewski
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For 2 Flutes (Maravillas)
Arranger Maravillas
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For Flute and Piano
Arranger Unknown
Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzgiz, n.d.
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For Oboe and Piano (Siguir)
Arranger Paul Siguir
Publisher. Info. Paris: W. Bessel, n.d.(ca.1929). Plate W. 8407 B.
Reprinted Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, n.d. (ca.2000). Catalog 8599.
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For Clarinet and Piano (Rozanov)
Arranger Sergey Rozanov (1870–1937)
Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzgiz, n.d.
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For Cello and Piano (Mandozzi)
Arranger Orfeo Mandozzi
Publisher. Info. Würzburg: Orfeo Mandozzi 2014
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For Organ (Nehls)
Arranger Ulrich Nehls
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For Piano (Rachmaninoff)
Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Publisher. Info. New York: Carl Fischer, 1931. Plate P.1923.
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Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Publisher. Info. Moscow: Muzyka, n.d.(ca.1960).
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Misc. Notes This file is from the MIT archive project.
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Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Publisher. Info. Izbrannie pesy dlia fortepiano
Moscow: Muzyka, 1970.
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Misc. Notes The "Op.15 No.2" is for a song transcription. Low resolution!
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Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
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Reccmo (2012/3/18)

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Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Editor Jürgen Knuth
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For Piano (Rachmaninoff and Kuliev)

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Ramin Kuliev (2017/12/13)

Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Ramin Kuliev (b. 1990)
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Libretti

5 more: Introduction and Prologue • Act I • Act II • Act III • Act IV

Language French
Translator Louis Laloy (1874–1944), French text
Publisher. Info. Paris: W. Bessel & Cie., n.d.
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Misc. Notes This file is part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Editor August Bernhard (1852–1908), German text
Language German
Publisher. Info. Paris: Bessel, n.d.
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Braille Scores

Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III)

For Piano (Rachmaninoff)

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Arranger Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943)
Editor Hu Haipeng (b. 1984)
Publisher. Info. Hu Haipeng, 2018.
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Misc. Notes Braille score in bar-over-bar format, 40 cells per line.
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General Information

Work Title The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Alternative. Title The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of his Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Guidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Swan Princess (Сказка о Царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре Князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной Царевне Лебеди) ; Fairy-Tale opera
Name Translations サルタン皇帝; Le Conte du tsar Saltan; Сказка о царе Салтане; El cuento del zar Saltán; El conte del tsar Saltan; [15 more...]Tsaari Saltanin tarina; Mese Szaltán cárról; La fiaba dello zar Saltan; Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan; La fóla dal śar Saltan; Bajka o carze Sałtanie; Sagan om tsar Saltan; 薩坦王的故事; 萨坦王的故事; Казка про царя Салтана (опера); Приказната за цар Салтан (опера); Приказка за цар Салтан; Pohádka o caru Saltánovi; סיפורו של הצאר סלטאן; Το παραμύθι του τσάρου Σαλτάν
Name Aliases 皇帝サルタンの物語; Skazka o tsare Saltane; El Zar Saltán; El cuento del zar Saltan; El Zar Saltan; [5 more...]Tsar Saltan; La favola dello zar Saltan; Bajka o carze Sałtanie, jego synu, sławnym i potężnym bohaterze księciu Gwidonie Sałtanowiczu i o pęknej Księżniczce-Łabędziu; Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan, von seinem Sohn, dem ruhmreichen und mächtigen Recken Fürst Gwidon Saltanowitsch, und von der wunderschönen Schwanenzarefna; Skaska o zare Saltane
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 177636411; LCCN: n80125016; GND: 300130953; BNF: 13917931s
Composer Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. INR 79
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's prologue, 4 acts
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1899–1900
First Performance. 1900-11-03 in Moscow: Solodovnikov Theatre [more...]
Nikolay Mutin (Tsar Saltan)
Yelena Tsvetkova (Tsaritsa Militrisa)
Aleksandra Rostovtseva (Tkachikha)
Adelaida Veretennikova (Povarikha)
Varvara Strakhova (Babarikha)
Anton Sekar-Rozhansky (Tsarevich Gvidon)
Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel (Tsarevna Swan-Bird)
Vasily Schafer (Old Grandfather)
Nikolay Shevelyov (Courier)
Mikhail Levandovsky (Skomorokh)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (conductor)
First Publication. 1901-04 – St. Petersburg: Bessel.
  • Vocal score, 281 pages. Plate 4849. (1901)
  • Full score, 462 pages (lithographed from a manuscript). Plate 4882. (1904)
Librettist Vladimir Belsky (1866–1946), after Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837)
Language Russian
Average DurationAvg. Duration 2.5 hours
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus (SATB), orchestra
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Cast
Tsar Saltan - Царь Салтан (bass)
Tsaritsa Militrisa - Царица Милитриса (soprano)
Tkachikha - Ткачиха (mezzo-soprano)
Povarikha - Повариха (soprano)
Babarikha - Бабариха (contralto)
Tsarevich Gvidon - Царевич Гвидон (tenor)
Tsarevna Swan-Bird - Царевна Лебедь (soprano)
Old Grandfather - Старый дед (tenor)
Courier - Гонец (baritone)
Skomorokh - Скоморох (bass)

Mixed Chorus (SATB)

Nobles, Courtiers, Nurses, Guards, Soldiers,
Sailors, Astrologers, Squirrel, Bumble-bee

Orchestra:

piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn
3 clarinets (3rd also bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, contrabassoon
4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba
timpani, glockenspiel, xylophone, triangle, tam-ta
snare drum, tambourine, cymbals, bass drum
celesta, 2 harps, strings

Offstage Instruments

3 trumpets, bells, bass drum
Related Works For the concert suite, see The Tale of Tsar Saltan (suite)
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