Capriccio espagnol,
Op. 34, is the common Western title for a five movement orchestral suite, based on
Spanish folk melodies, composed by the
Russian composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887. Rimsky-Korsakov originally intended to write the work for a solo
violin with
orchestra, but later decided that a purely orchestral work would do better justice to the lively melodies. The Russian title is
Каприччио на испанские темы (literally,
Capriccio on Spanish Themes).