Tale of Tsar Saltan (Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai)
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Preliminaries
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Prologue
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Introduction to Act I
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Act I
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Introduction to Act II
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Act II
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Act III, Tableau 1
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Act III, Tableau 2
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Act IV, Tableau 1
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Introduction to Last Tableau
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Act IV, Tableau 2 (with outside back cover)
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St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d. (1901). Plate 4849.
Censor's date 13 July 1900, 1910 copyright claim.
Arrangements and Transcriptions
Flight of the Bumblebee (Act III, Tableau 1)
This selection, known outside of the opera as «Полёт шмеля» ("Flight of the Bumblebee"), although not labeled as such in the score, ends the first tableau of the third act and constitutes by far the most well-known item from this opera. The music recurs in modified guise during the ensuing tableau of the opera (Act III, Tableau 2).
For Voice with Piano (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Vocal score excerpt from Act III, Tableau 1
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St. Petersburg: Bessel, n.d. (1901). Plate 4849.
Excerpted from the original piano-vocal score. For reference, here is an English translation of the libretto for this selection (from the Wikipedia article on the "Flight."):
(Gvidon goes down from the shore into the sea. Out from the sea flies a bumblebee, whirling around the Swan-Bird.)
SWAN-BIRD:
Well, now, my bumblebee, go on a spree,
catch up with the ship on the sea,
go down secretly,
get into a crack a little distance away.
Good luck, Gvidon, fly,
only do not stay long!
(The bumblebee flies away.)
For Piano solo (Rachmaninoff)
Complete score [TB]
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943), transcriber
New York: Carl Fischer, 1931. Plate P.1923.
Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU
Complete score [TB]
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943), transcriber
Moscow: Muzyka, n.d. (ca.1960).
Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU
This file is from the MIT archive project.
Complete score [TB]
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1874–1943), transcriber
Moscow: Muzyka, 1970 — in the collection Izbrannie Pesy dlia Fortepiano
Public Domain - Non-PD US, Non-PD EU
The "Op. 15, No. 2" is for a song transcription. Low resolution!
For Piano Solo (Yeung)
Piano Score
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General Information
| Work Title | Сказка о Царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богатыре Князе Гвидоне Салтановиче и о прекрасной Царевне Лебеди |
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| Alternative Title | The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son, the Famous and Mighty Bogatyr' Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess Swan = Das Märchen vom Zar Saltan |
| Composer | Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai |
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| Number of Movements/Sections | 4 acts |
| Year/Date of Composition | 1899-1900 |
| Year of First Publication | 1901 |
| Librettist | Vladimir Ivanovich Belskii, after Alexander Pushkin |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Opera |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | vocal soli, chorus / orchestra |
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Misc. Comments
Publication History
Initial publisher was V. Bessel & Co., St. Petersburg.
Complete Opera
Full score
- St. Petersburg (Petrograd): Bessel, 1904, plate W. 4882 B., 462 pages (lithographed from a manuscript)
- Reprinted by Kalmus
- Moscow: Muzgiz, 1957, ed. Anatoly Nikodimovich Dmitriev (1908-19??), plate M. 26100 G., xii+459, 406 pages
Vol. 10 (a, b) of Polnoe Sobranie Sochinenii (complete works, issued 1946-70)
- Reprinted by Belwin, 1979-84
Vocal score
- St. Petersburg (Petrograd): Bessel, 1901, plate W. 4849 B., 281 pages
- Reprinted by Muzgiz in 1926, 1932, 1934 (with plate M. 6407 G.)
- "Revised Edition" Paris: Bessel, 1929, plate W. 8366 B., 284 pages
- Moscow: Muzgiz, n.d. (ca. 1949), plate M. 13193 G., 343 pages (reissued 1988)
- Reprinted by Kalmus (Well-Tempered Press)
- Moscow: Muzgiz, 1957, ed. Anatoly Nikodimovich Dmitriev (1908-19??), xii+375 pages. (Vol. 38 of complete works)
- Reprinted by Belwin, 1979-84
Музыкальные картинки = Tableaux musicaux (Suite), Op. 57
Note: This suite consists of the orchestral introductions to Act 1, Act 2, and Act 4, Tableau 2.
Full score
- St. Petersburg (Petrograd): Bessel, 1901, plate W. 4880 B., 71 pages
- Reprinted by Kalmus
- Moscow: Muzigiz, 1952, plate M. 19613 G., 156 pages
- Moscow: Muzika, 1982, 167 pages
Piano 4 hands
- St. Petersburg (Petrograd): Bessel, 1904, arr. Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848-1919), plates W. 4867-69 B., 45 pages
Piano solo
- St. Petersburg (Petrograd): Bessel, 1901, plate W. 4849 B., 25 pages
"Полёт шмеля" = "Flight of the Bumblebee" (from Act 3, Tableau 1)
Note: Flight of the Bumblebee occurs at the end of the tableau; the Swan sings over the music. This excerpt is NOT part of the Suite (Tableaux Musicaux), Op. 57, although it is sometimes included during performances of the suite. The various arrangements listed in this publication history are the earliest ones only -- a mere fraction of those that exist now.
Orchestra
- Paris: W. Bessel & Cie., 1931, arr. Joseph Strimer (1881-1962), 23 pages (full score)
- New York: Carl Fischer, 1932 arr. F. Sevitzky, plate 26270, 8 pages (full score - string orchestra)
Band
- New York: Carl Fischer, 1933, arr. Gerardo Iasilli, plate 26562-41, 9 pages (condensed score)
US Military Band Journal, No. 318
Piano solo
- Paris: W. Bessel & Cie., 1926, arr. Joseph Strimer (1881-1962), plate W. 8285 B., 11 pages
- London: Hawkes & Son, Ltd., 1928, plate H. 15175, 5 pages
- New York: E. B. Marks, 1930, arr. Paolo Gallico (1868-1955), plate 9593-5, 5 pages
- Boston: Boston Music Co., 1931, arr. Chester Wallis, plate 8615-6, 6 pages
- Boston: White-Smith Music Co., 1934, arr. Harry Lawson Heartz, plate 16112-6, 7 pages
- New York: G. Schirmer, 1934, arr. Harvey Enders, 7 pages
Violin / Piano
- Paris: W. Bessel & Cie., 1925, arr. Arthur Martinus Hartmann (1881-19??), plate W. 8161 B., 5+2 pages
- New York: Carl Fischer, 1932, arr. Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), Ed. #2258, plate 26253-7, 7+3 pages
Cello / Piano
- Paris: W. Bessel & Cie., 1928, arr. Joseph Strimer (1881-1962), plate W. 8358 B., 4+3 pages
Flute / Piano
- Paris: W. Bessel & Cie., 1928, arr. Joseph Strimer (1881-1962), plate W. 8358 B., 4+3 pages
Clarinet / Piano
- Moscow: Muzgiz, 1931, arr. S. Rosanov, plate #M. 7041 G.
- New York: Carl Fischer, 1933, arr. Gerardo Iasilli, plate 26496-15, 7+3 pages (also for Cornet, Saxophone, etc.)
