The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Another composer of programmatic music is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, whose colorful "musical pictures" include "Sadko", Op. 5, after the Russian Bylina, about the minstrel who sings to the Tsar of the Sea, the very famous "'Scheherazade", Op. 35, after the Arabian Nights entertainments (where the heroine is depicted by a violin and whose stories include "Sinbad the Sailor") and any number of orchestral suites from his operas, including "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (which also contains "Flight of the Bumblebee"), "The Golden Cockerel", "Christmas Eve", "The Snow Maiden", and "The Legend of The Invisible City of Kitezh".