The Musical Birthday Series - March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844 – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) wrote a huge catalogue of distinguished colorful music which remains quite rarely played outside of Russia. Today, in honor of his New Style birthday, we muse on this fact.

One Hit Blunder

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

(Perhaps this will seem odd)

Would surely have been better off

Without Scheherazade,

For if you have a single work,

Well-known and overplayed,

Your others are condemned to lurk

Forgotten in its shade.