Dance of the Jesters, from The Snow Maiden – Rimsky-Korsakov (violin duo)

Title: Dance of the Jesters, from the opera The Snow Maiden

Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Violin 1; Violin 2

Printout: 4 pages

Note: Of all the great nineteenth century Russian composers, none wrote for violin better than Rimsky-Korsakov. This ebullient music from his opera The Snow Maiden (not to be confused with Tchaikovsky’s incidental music for the stage play of the same name) works beautifully as a violin duet.