Note 46 — Chapter XII · RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Reading edition
It will be remembered that Zaremba was satirized in Moussorgsky’s humorous Scena “The Musician’s Peep-show” as that “denizen of cloudland” who used to deliver to his bewildered classes inspired dictums something in this style:
“Mark my words: the minor key Is the source of man’s first downfall; But the major still can give Salvation to your erring souls.”