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The original Russian title of the tone poem, Иванова ночь на лысой горе, translates literally as Saint 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 alternative titles in English.
Night on Bald Mountain was directed by Wilfred Jackson. Its story closely follows the descriptions that Mussorgsky had written on his original score of the tone poem. [69] Chernabog was animated by Vladimir "Bill" Tytla, his design inspired from a pencil sketch by Swiss artist Albert Hurter of a demon sitting atop a mountain unfolding its wings.
Night on Bald Mountain is a play by Australian writer Patrick White. The action takes place during twenty-four hours on isolated Bald Mountain beyond Sydney . White had called it the first true Australian tragedy.
Night on Bald Mountain: 1867: 1867: Tone poem; recast for orchestra and chorus as 'Glorification of Chornobog' for inclusion in the collaborative opera Mlada (1872), and again as 'Dream Vision of the Peasant Lad' in the opera Sorochyntsi Fair (1880) Intermezzo symphonique in modo classico: 1867: 1867: Originally for piano; trio added Podebrad ...
This short story was famously the main inspiration for the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's tone poem Night on Bald Mountain, made known to the wider international audience by its use in Disney's Fantasia. Mussorgsky had abandoned an earlier project, an opera based on the short story. [12]
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.
Night on Bald Mountain (musical composition by Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov inspired by the legend); A Bald Mountain can be found in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita as the mountain where the Iyeshua (Jesus of Nazareth) was crucified and it is the location of a sabbath in which Margarita takes part.
Modest Mussorgsky's composition Night on Bald Mountain was originally titled St. John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, based on the story "St. John's Eve" by Nikolai Gogol. The first version appeared in 1867 and was revised around 1872 and again in 1880.