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Night on Bald Mountain
, one ofthe first orchestral works by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It depicts astory by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, describing a witches' Sabbath held upon amountaintop on St John's Eve. After two unsuccessful attempts to transform thisstory into opera, Mussorgsky completed the tone poem in 1867.
However, it washeavily criticised in Mussorgsky's lifetime and was revised by Rimsky-Korsakov in1886.
, one ofthe first orchestral works by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. It depicts astory by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, describing a witches' Sabbath held upon amountaintop on St John's Eve. After two unsuccessful attempts to transform thisstory into opera, Mussorgsky completed the tone poem in 1867.
However, it washeavily criticised in Mussorgsky's lifetime and was revised by Rimsky-Korsakov in1886.
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