The most famous version of Modest Mussorgsky's composition 'Night On A Bald Mountain' was arranged by which fellow composer?
"Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]. The demon language the characters sing, of which Mussorgsky was contemptuous in a letter, is preserved. Mussorgsky sent the following program to [[Vladimir Stasov]] about three months after its composition in 1880: The peasant lad sleeps at the foot of a hillock at some distance from the hut where he should have been. In his sleep appear to him: Паробок спит у подножия пригорка, далеко, вдали от хаты, куда бы должен попасть. Во сне ему мерещатся: As part of ""The Fair at Sorochyntsi"": Concert version: [[File:NARK.jpg|thumb|upright|Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]] In the years after Mussorgsky's death, his friends prepared"
"Modest Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (; – ) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as ""The Five"". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera ""Boris Godunov"", the orchestral tone poem ""Night on Bald Mountain"" and the piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"". For many years Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised"
"old friend Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov. However, Lyadov orchestrated only five numbers (published in 1904) and did not finish the opera. Vyacheslav Karatygin later edited some fragments of Mussorgsky's manuscripts, which were orchestrated by Lyadov and performed in 1911. The next year Vladimir Senilov published his orchestration of Parasya's dumka from Act III. Yury Sakhnovsky edited and orchestrated some fragments which, together with material edited by Lyadov, Karatygin, and Rimsky-Korsakov (i.e., the ""Night on Bald Mountain"" music) constituted a staged ""premiere"" of sorts, performed at the Moscow Free Theatre on 8 October 1913 (Old Style), with spoken dialogue inserted for scenes without"
"for making his colossal talent known, and not for the mere studying of his personality and artistic sins. Maes stated that time proved Rimsky-Korsakov correct when it came to posterity's re-evaluation of Mussorgsky's work. Mussorgsky's musical style, once considered unpolished, is now admired for its originality. While Rimsky-Korsakov's arrangement of ""Night on Bald Mountain"" is still the version generally performed, Rimsky-Korsakov's other revisions, like his version of ""Boris Godunov"", have been replaced by Mussorgsky's original. Rimsky-Korsakov may have saved the most personal side of his creativity for his approach to Russian folklore. Folklorism as practiced by Balakirev and the other"
"the symmetrical scene structure of the Revised Version, it undermines the composer's carefully devised and subtle system of leitmotiv deployment, and results in the overexposure of the Dmitriy motive. After Mussorgsky's death in 1881, his friend Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov undertook to put his scores in order, completing and editing ""Khovanshchina"" for publication (1883), reconstructing ""Night on Bald Mountain"" (1886), and ""correcting"" some songs. Next, he turned to ""Boris"". He experimented first with the Polonaise, temporarily scoring it for a Wagner-sized orchestra in 1889. In 1892 he revised the Coronation Scene, and, working from the 1874 Vocal Score, completed the remainder of"
"specifically by Herbert Stothart, who provided most of the underscoring for the film. A humorous adaptation of ""Night on Bald Mountain"" for brass band and kazoo was recorded by the Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band, and appears on the album ""Retro Rooter"". [[Category:Compositions by Modest Mussorgsky]] [[Category:Symphonic poems]] [[Category:Adaptations of works by Nikolai Gogol]] [[Category:1867 compositions]] [[Category:1886 compositions]] [[Category:Segments from Fantasia]] [[Category:Music based on European myths and legends]] [[Category:The Devil in fiction]] [[Category:The Devil in classical music]] Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain (), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions"
"was a standard practice for conductors prior to the second half of the 20th Century. Among others, he amended the orchestrations of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Brahms. For example, Stokowski revised the ending of the ""Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture"", by Tchaikovsky, so it would close quietly, taking his notion from Modest Tchaikovsky's ""Life and Letters of Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky"" (translated by Rosa Newmarch: 1906) that the composer had provided a quiet ending of his own at Balakirev's suggestion. Stokowski made his own orchestration of Mussorgsky's ""Night on Bald Mountain"" by adapting Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestration and making it"
"2 and 3 were distributed between Mussorgsky and myself. Some portions of Act 2 (folk-wise choruses) were assigned to me; the first half of Act 3 (flight of shadows and appearance of Mlada) was reserved for me; while Mussorgsky undertook the second half—appearance of Chernobog, for which he wanted to utilize his ""Night on Bald Mountain"", heretofore unused.<br> The thought of ""Mlada"" and the few sketches I made for it took me away from ""The Maid of Pskov"" and the work on ""The Stone Guest"". Cui composed the whole first act of ""Mlada"" rather rapidly. Borodin, who had been somewhat"
"Tcherepnin in 1923 and by Vissarion Shebalin in 1930. Shebalin's version became the standard since then. This also includes the ""Night on Bald Mountain"" as a prelude to the third act, instead of an interlude in act one (following Gritsko's Dumka), as Mussorgsky originally planned. The Fair at Sorochyntsi The Fair at Sorochyntsi (, ""Sorochinskaya yarmarka"", ""Sorochyntsi Fair"") is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on Nikolai Gogol's short story of the same name, from his early (1832) collection of"
"music by Mussorgsky. In commemoration of his late comrade from The Five, César Cui became the first to create a complete version of ""The Fair at Sorochyntsi"" during 1914–1916. This fully sung version – but without the ""Night on Bald Mountain"" sequence – was staged on 13 October 1917 (Old Style) at the Theatre of Musical Drama in Petrograd. The foreword to Cui's edition, dated October 1916, explains the state of affairs at the time, and translates thus: However, Cui's version failed to find a permanent place in the repertory, and the opera was completed and orchestrated again by Nikolai"
"other way Claire was quoted by her biographer as saying, “""Between us, he's the genius."" After building the first large pinscreen, Alexeieff and Parker began work on the first pinscreen film in 1931, ""Night on Bald Mountain"", an adaptation of the piece by Modest Mussorgsky, his favorite Russian composer. The theme of Mussorgsky's composition and the film is a witches’ Sabbath on the summer solstice on Mount Triglav near Kiev, Russia. However the film is less narrative and more poetic, a succession of images rather than a story. The film took the couple two years to make. The technique of"
"where he linked it to Modest Mussorgsky's ""Night on Bald Mountain"" in one of his most famous pastiches. The end of Mussorgsky's work blends with almost no break into the beginning of Schubert's song, and as Deems Taylor remarked, the bells in ""Night on Bald Mountain"", originally meant to signal the coming of dawn, which cause the demon Chernobog to stop his dark worship and the ghosts to return to the grave, now seem to be church bells signalling the beginning of religious services. A procession of monks is shown walking along. The text for this version is sung in"
"in 1881. He reused some music that he had written previously (such as the ""Market Scene"" from Act II of the ill-fated ""Mlada"" of 1872, used for the opening scene of ""Fair""). Incorporation of the music of ""Night on Bald Mountain"" as a dream sequence involving the hero was a late addition to the scenario in the course of composition, despite the fact that such an episode is not suggested by the original story. Although Mussorgsky managed to complete some numbers and even some of the orchestration, significant portions of the scenario were left without any music at all or"
"reviewer: he ""showed brilliance"" including his effort on ""Liszt's A major concerto (No 2) [which] had an assured technique, but can still go a long way before his powers as an interpreter of his composer are fully used."" In November of that year, as a student at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, he played piano alongside Ann Molan on violin for César Franck's Violin Sonata and Édouard Lalo's ""Symphonie espagnole"". Gamley was particularly influenced by Modest Mussorgsky, creating a full orchestral version of his ""Pictures at an Exhibition"", and adapting his ""Night on Bald Mountain"" for his score for the"
"on St. John's Night (23–24 June) on the Lysa Hora (Bald Mountain), near Kiev. The following program is taken from the score: The first re-modelling of the tone poem took place in 1872, when Mussorgsky revised and recast it for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra as part of act 3 that he was assigned to contribute to the collaborative opera-ballet ""Mlada"". In this new version the music was to form the basis of the ""Night on Mount Triglav"" (, ""Noch′ na gore Triglave"") scene. Mussorgsky referred to this piece under the title ""Glorification of Chernobog"" (, ""Slavlenye Chornoboga"") in a"
"had just composed. This concert and a rehearsal the previous year gave Rimsky-Korsakov the idea of offering concerts featuring Russian compositions, a prospect to which Belyayev was amenable. The Russian Symphony Concerts were inaugurated during the 1886–87 season, with Rimsky-Korsakov sharing conducting duties with Anatoly Lyadov. He finished his revision of Mussorgsky's ""Night on Bald Mountain"" and conducted it at the opening concert. The concerts also coaxed him out of his creative drought; he wrote ""Scheherazade"", ""Capriccio Espagnol"" and the ""Russian Easter Overture"" specifically for them. He noted that these three works ""show a considerable falling off in the use"
"who made a point of obtaining a piano duet arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's ""Antar"" Symphony. So started what was to be an important influence on Ravel's own work. Glazunov was appointed conductor for the series in 1896. The following year, he led the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No 1. While Glazunov's conducting skills were not especially strong and he used his rehearsal time poorly, his alcoholism may have contributed to the debacle. Some of the works currently best known as ""Russian music"" were first presented at the Russian Symphony Concerts. Rimsky-Korsakov finished his revision of Modest Mussorgsky's ""Night on Bald"
"this version of the film marked the first time a film's soundtrack had been digitally re-recorded in its entirety. To replace Stokowski's recordings, the noted film conductor Irwin Kostal was engaged. He directed a 121-piece orchestra and 50-voice choir for the recording that took place over eighteen sessions and cost $1 million. To maintain continuity with the animation Kostal based his performance on the tempos and pacing of the Stokowski recordings, including the cuts and revisions to ""The Rite of Spring"". However, for ""Night on Bald Mountain"" he used the standard arrangement by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov instead of Leopold Stokowski's own"
"Bald Mountain"" enjoyed broad popular recognition in the 1940s when it was featured, in tandem with Schubert's 'Ave Maria', in the Disney film ""Fantasia"". Among the composer's other works are a number of songs, including three song cycles: ""The Nursery"" (1872), ""Sunless"" (1874) and ""Songs and Dances of Death"" (1877); plus ""Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea"" and many others. Important early recordings of songs by Mussorgsky were made by tenor Vladimir Rosing in the 1920s and 1930s. Other recordings have been made by Boris Christoff between 1951 and 1957 and by Sergei Leiferkus in 1993. Contemporary opinions of Mussorgsky as"
"than isolation and eventual self-destruction. For a time Mussorgsky was able to maintain his creative output: his compositions from 1874 include ""Sunless"", the ""Khovanshchina"" Prelude, and the piano suite ""Pictures at an Exhibition"" (in memory of Hartmann); he also began work on another opera based on Gogol, ""The Fair at Sorochyntsi"" (for which he produced another choral version of ""Night on Bald Mountain""). In the years that followed, Mussorgsky's decline became increasingly steep. Although now part of a new circle of eminent personages that included singers, medical men and actors, he was increasingly unable to resist drinking, and a succession"
"never re-model it: ""with whatever shortcomings, it is born; and with them it must live if it is to live at all."" Having finally completed the work, Mussorgsky was crushed when his mentor Mily Balakirev was savagely critical of it. The score is peppered with comments such as ""the devil knows what [this is]"", ""what rubbish"", and ""this might be of use"", probably pencilled in by Balakirev. This ""first version"" was put aside, and did not appear in print until 1968, in a new edition prepared by Georgiy Kirkor. The original tone poem, ""St. John's Eve on Bald Mountain"" (1867),"
"""picturesque music."" In this Glinka was influenced by French composer Hector Berlioz, whom he met in the summer of 1844. At least three of the Five fully embraced the symphonic poem. Mily Balakirev's ""Tamara"" (1867–82) richly evokes the fairy-tale orient and, while remaining closely based on the poem by Mikhail Lermontov, remains well-paced and full of atmosphere. Balakirev's other two symphonic poems, ""In Bohemia"" (1867, 1905) and ""Russia"" (1884 version) lack the same narrative content; they are actually looser collections of national melodies and were originally written as concert overtures. Macdonald calls Modest Mussorgsky's ""Night on Bald Mountain"" and Alexander"
"III of his unfinished opera, Sorochintsy yarmarka [The Fair at Sorochintsy]. He labored on it for years prior to his death in 1881. Mussorgsky himself wrote the opera's libretto, based on a Gogol story of the same name. Its ballet scenes thus expressed the 'night on bald mountain'. The music was re-orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov. The ballet ""Le train blue"" has been called a 'danced operetta'. Darius Milhaud composed the music, with the ballet libretto by Jean Cocteau, poet and filmmaker. The dancers' wardrobe were designed by 'Coco' Chanel; it included ""bathing costumes of the period"". The scenery was by sculptor"
"""Night on Bald Mountain"" (which, however, Balakirev criticised and refused to conduct, with the result that it was never performed during Mussorgsky's lifetime). Mussorgsky's career as a civil servant was by no means stable or secure: though he was assigned to various posts and even received a promotion in these early years, in 1867 he was declared 'supernumerary' – remaining 'in service', but receiving no wages. Decisive developments were occurring in his artistic life, however. Although it was in 1867 that Stasov first referred to the 'kuchka' ('The Five') of Russian composers loosely grouped around Balakirev, Mussorgsky was by then"
"as it is have too much intellect,"" she felt. The ballet premiered in April, 1924, in Monte Carlo, with principal dancers Lydia Sokolova and Michel Fedorov. Nijinska's choreography was set to the music of Modest Mussorgsky. Some designs for ballet then experimented ""with costumes that 'reconstructed' the body, transforming its natural shape."" For ""Night on Bald Mountain"", Nijinska's sketches ""show elongated, arc-like forms."" The costumes designed by Alexandra Exter ""played with shape"" and ""played with gender"". Nijinska emphasized the ensemble rather than the individual dancer. Here it was ""her inventive use of the corps de ballet as the central figure"""
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi The Fair at Sorochyntsi (, ""Sorochinskaya yarmarka"", ""Sorochyntsi Fair"") is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is based on Nikolai Gogol's short story of the same name, from his early (1832) collection of Ukrainian stories ""Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka"". The opera remained unfinished and unperformed at Mussorgsky's death in 1881. Mussorgsky worked on the opera between 1874 and 1880, in competition with his work on ""Khovanshchina"" (1872–1880); both were incomplete at the time of his death"
"John's Eve on Bald Mountain"", usually shortened to ""Night on Bald Mountain"". However, due to several ambiguities, the composition is also known by a number of alternate titles in English. The Russian word ""ночь"" (""noch′"") is literally ""night"" in English, but idiomatically this would refer to the night following St. John's Day, variously observed between 21 June (the summer solstice) and 25 June. The night before St. John's Day is usually referred to as ""St. John's Eve"" in English; Russian does not make this distinction. ""Bald Mountain"" is the most familiar translation of ""лысой горе"" (""lysoy gore"") in English, and"
"Borodin's ""In the Steppes of Central Asia"" ""powerful orchestral pictures, each unique in its composer's output"". Titled a ""musical portrait"", ""In the Steppes of Central Asia"" evokes the journey of a caravan across the steppes. ""Night on Bald Mountain"", especially its original version, contains harmony that is often striking, sometimes pungent and highly abrasive; its initial stretches especially pull the listener into a world of uncompromisingly brutal directness and energy. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote only two orchestral works that rank as symphonic poems, his ""musical tableau"" ""Sadko"" (1867–92) and ""Skazka"" (""Legend"", 1879–80), originally titled ""Baba-Yaga"". While this may perhaps be surprising,"
"disappointed in writing ""Prince Igor"", now took much of the suitable material from it, composed some new music also, and thus wrote almost the whole draft of Act 4. Mussorgsky composed the 'March of the Princes' on a Russian theme (subsequently published separately, with the 'Trio alla Turca'), as well as some other portions of Act 2; he also made suitable changes in his ""Night on the Bare Mountain"" and adapted it for Chernobog's appearance in Act 3 of ""Mlada"". On the other hand, my notes of the chorus in Act 2 and the flight of shadows in Act 3"
"the most of Russian composers. Glinka was followed by Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869) with his Rusalka (1856) and revolutionary The Stone Guest (""Kamenny gost"", completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and premiered in 1872). Other composers were: Russian opera reached its apogee with the works by Modest Mussorgsky and his antipode Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Modest Mussorgsky's (1839–1881) Boris Godunov remains the greatest masterpiece of Russian opera, despite what many consider to be serious technical faults and a bewildering array of versions (Original Version of 1869, Revised Version of 1872, Rimsky-Korsakov Edition of 1908, Shostakovich Edition of 1940, etc.). His other operas were left unfinished: Pyotr"
"25 December 1858, has been interpreted as an indication of Mussorgsky's intent to write an opera on the subject of Gogol's short story ""St. John's Eve"" (, ""Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala"", ""St. John's Eve""). Gogol's tale contains the elements of witchcraft common to other stories in the ""Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka"" collection, but does not feature a witches' sabbath. No further plans for this project were mentioned. The theme of a witches' sabbath, the central theme in all subsequent ""Night on Bald Mountain"" projects, appears to have been derived from the nonextant play ""The Witch"" (, ""Ved′ma"") by"
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