The Rose and the Nightingale (Роза и Соловей - Roza i Solovey) was composed in 1866 by the young and not yet famous Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The composer used the words of Alexei Koltsov's poem Nightingale: Pushkin's Imitation, which was written in 1831. "The Rose and The Nightingale" was written for someone called Malvina Kyui, most likely Rimsly-Korsakov's romantic interest. The music tells the story of Nightingale, who fell in love with a Rose and sings to her all day and night, but the Rose just silently listens to his songs.

The translation of the song is, "Nightingale fell in love with Rose, and sings to her all days and nights, but Rose silently listens to his songs. Other singer plays the lyre for young maiden, but sweet maiden doesn't know, to whom he sings and why his songs are so solemn". Although written for Orchestra and arranged for Flute & Piano, I created this transcription for Flute and Acoustic Piano.