The Happy Frog – in this piece of music you can literally hear the frog leaping! The „leapingtheme” starts in the low strings and then continues in the high strings, over which a lovely melodic line is heard. While the parts of violin 1, viola 1 and cello 1 include challenging passages (up to the 3rd/4th position), the parts of violin 2, viola 2 and cello 2 can be played by students in the first or second year of learning the instrument.

These parts also contain pleasing melodies, not just ac...