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Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Heifetz)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · 1844–1908
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM
Listen
- Type
- Showpiece
- Setting
- Piano
- Length
- About 2 min
- Era
- Late Romantic
- Nationality
- Russian
- Exam lists
- AMEB, UIL
Notes
Chromatic perpetual motion
About this work
- Composed
- 1899–1900
- First performed
- 3 November 1900 in Moscow: Solodovnikov Theatre; 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)
Exam & syllabus listings
AMEB CertPerf · UIL Gr 1