John Wiser replies to me:

>Steve Schwartz wrote:
>
>>One-Hit Wonder implies a composer who wrote one good piece or a piece
>>that is SO much better than the rest of his output.
>
>Pardon me, but it implies nothing of the kind.  It is ordinarily intended
>to described a composer with one conspicuously POPULAR work ("one-hit,"
>get it?) and doesn't call the quality of all other works into question.

Sorry, but it does, at least in idiomatic English.  I agree with your
definition as primary (which I felt too well known to require mention),
but the secondary definition does exist, at least in the low circles I
move in.  If all language were confined to the dictionary, we'd be a lot
poorer.

Steve Schwartz

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