The Young Prince and the Young Princess

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"The Young Prince and the Young Princess" is the lyrical, romantic third movement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade, depicting a tender love story through richly orchestrated, Eastern-inspired themes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf orchestral movement
programmatic music
romantic orchestral work
symphonic movement
alsoKnownAs Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade
surface form: The Young Prince and the Young Princess (movement III of Scheherazade, Op. 35)
associatedWith Scheherazade’s storytelling
basedOn One Thousand and One Nights NERFINISHED
characteristic Eastern-inspired themes
lyrical
richly orchestrated
romantic
tender
composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
depicts a love story
a young prince
a young princess
featuresInstrument harp
solo winds
strings
woodwinds
firstPerformanceOfWholeWork 1888
followedBy Festival at Baghdad – The Sea – The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman
genre orchestral music
program music
symphonic suite movement
hasForm lyrical episodic structure
hasMood intimate
serene
hasNarrativeFunction depiction of romantic love within Scheherazade
hasTempoCharacter moderate
hasTheme melodic love theme
influencedBy Orientalist musical style
languageOfTitle English
movementNumber 3
opusNumberOfWholeWork Op. 35
orchestration full symphony orchestra
originalLanguageOfTitle Russian
partOf Scheherazade
partOfSeries movements of Scheherazade
partOfWorkBy Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
precededBy The Story of the Kalendar Prince
publicationYearOfWholeWork 1889
style Romantic
typicalPerformanceContext concert hall
symphony orchestra repertoire
uses modal and exotic-sounding scales

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Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Scheherazade movement The Young Prince and the Young Princess
subject surface form: Scheherazade
The Story of the Kalendar Prince followedBy The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Festival at Baghdad – The Sea – Shipwreck follows The Young Prince and the Young Princess