Night on Bald Mountain

Night on Bald Mountain is the common name for St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain (Ivanova noch' na Lisoy gore), a tone poem by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, a Russian composer and member of The Five, Mily Balakirev's group dedicated to producing a distinctly Russian kind of music. The piece was inspired by a short story by Gogol in which St. John witnesses a witches' sabbath on the Bald Mountain near Kiev. As with so much of this composer's music, the work had a tortured compositional history, and is now known in several contrasting versions.

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Tone poem - Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Russia - Composer - The Five - Mily Balakirev - Gogol - St. John - Witches' sabbath - Bald Mountain - Kiev

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