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Night on Bald Mountain or Night on Bare Mountain is a piece of music (tone poem) for orchestra by Modest Mussorgsky. He completed it in 1867. It was first performed in 1886 in a version by Rimsky-Korsakov after Mussorgsky's 1881 death. The music depicts a witches' Sabbath on St. John's Night. The music was used in Walt Disney's animated movie, Fantasia in 1940.
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Modest Petrovich Musorgskiy, 1865
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Title page of Rimsky-Korsakov's edition, published by V. Bessel and Co.
Leopold Stokowski.
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