Night on the Bare Mountain

A work in various forms by Mussorgsky, more properly called St John's Night on the Bare Mountain, based on the incident of the witches' sabbath in Gogol's story ‘St John's Eve’. It was first composed as a symphonic poem for orchestra 1866–67 and later used in a version for chorus and orchestra called Night on Mount Triglav in 1872, as part of the opera Mlada commissioned from Mussorgsky, Borodin, Cui, and Rimsky-Korsakov, but never completed. The revised version of this is used as the introduction to Act III of the unfinished opera Sorotchinsty Fair (1875). This last version was revised and arranged as an orchestral piece by Rimsky-Korsakov after Mussorgsky's death.