Night on Bald Mountain (Russian: Ночь на лысой горе, Noch ′ na lysoy gore), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -- 1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a "musical picture '', St. John 's Eve on Bald Mountain (Russian: Иванова ночь на лысой горе, ' Ivanova noch ′ na lysoy gore) on the theme of a witches ' sabbath occurring on St. John 's Eve, which he completed on that very night, 23 June 1867. Together with Nikolay Rimsky - Korsakov 's Sadko (1867), it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer.
when was night on bald mountain first performed
23 June 1867