Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his Fantasia on Serbian Themes Op. 6 in 1867. Mily Balakirev conducted the first performed of this piece in May of that year. It is also known as the Serbian Fantasy.The Fantasy was actually Balakirev’s idea for the young Rimsky-Korsakov to compose. He requested the piece for a concert of pan-Slavonic music he had planned for May 24 1867 programming his Czech Overture on the same billing.