- Music written by
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Publication date
- 1900
- Comments
- "Flight of the Bumblebee" is the popular English name for Полёт шмеля, an orchestral interlude written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera Сказка о царе Салтане, Skazka o Tsare Saltane (The Tale of Tsar Saltan), composed in 1899–1900. Its composition is intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic and rapidly changing flying pattern of a bumblebee. Despite the piece's being a rather incidental part of the opera, it is today one of the more familiar classical works because of its frequent use in popular culture.
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Song
Полёт шмеля {Polot shmelya} 3rd in 1900
Adaptations
An adaptation is a musical work, which uses elements (music or lyrics) from another musical work.
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Полёт шмеля {Polot shmelya} written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1900
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Partial adaptations
A partial adaptation is a musical work which integrates only a part of another musical work, and this part is only a fragment of the new musical work.
Полёт шмеля {Polot shmelya} written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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