" This instrument plays the leitmotif for Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and it is notably missing from the first movement of Brahms's German Requiem. "
John Cage wrote thirty-two Freeman Etudes for this instrument, and Arcangelo Corelli wrote variations on "La Folia" for it. Unusually, a fugue was written for this instrument by Tartini, who also wrote the "Devil's Trill." This instrument plays the leitmotif for Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, and it is notably missing from the first movement of Brahms's German Requiem. "The Hunt" and "The Devil's Laughter" come before the twenty-fourth of Paganini's famously difficult Caprices for this stringed instrument. For 10 points, name this treble-clef-reading solo instrument in Vivaldi's Spring whose strings are tuned a fifth higher than the viola's.
John Cage wrote thirty-two Freeman Etudes for this instrument, and Arcangelo Corelli wrote variations on "La Folia" for it.
Violin