Romantic · 1867
Night on Bald Mountain — opening
M. Mussorgsky
- Key
- Dm
- Time
- C
- Tempo
- ♩=152
- AO focus
- AO3
Incipit
Form
Tone poem. Orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov 1886 (the standard concert version). St. John's Eve witches' sabbath.
Teaching points
- Programmatic — witches' sabbath
- Rimsky orchestration is canonical
- AO3: editorial layers
Full score ↓Public domain
Bessel + later urtext, PD.