page_title: Night on Bald Mountain
section_title: Rimsky-Korsakov's fantasy: Night on Bald Mountain (1886)
hierarchical_section_title: Night on Bald Mountain / Rimsky-Korsakov's fantasy: Night on Bald Mountain (1886)
caption_attribution_description: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Scan made by en:User:Ivan Velikii
context_page_description: Night on Bald Mountain, also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky. Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a "musical picture", St. John's Eve on Bald Mountain on the theme of a Witches' Sabbath occurring on St. John's Eve, which he completed on that very night, 23 June 1867. Together with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko, it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer.
  Although Mussorgsky was proud of his youthful effort, his mentor, Miliy Balakirev, refused to perform it. To salvage what he considered worthy material, Mussorgsky attempted to insert his Bald Mountain music, recast for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, into two subsequent projects—the collaborative opera-ballet Mlada, and the opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi. However, Night on Bald Mountain was never performed in any form during Mussorgsky's lifetime.
  In 1886, five years after Mussorgsky's death, Rimsky-Korsakov published an arrangement of the work, described as a "fantasy for orchestra."
caption: Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
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