Night on Bald Mountain my way with. Originally composed in the sixties under the influence of [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]'s "[[Totentanz (Liszt)|Danse Macabre]]" for the piano with accompaniment of orchestra, this piece (then called "St. John's Eve", and both severely and justly criticized by [[Mily Balakirev|Balakirev]]) had long been utterly neglected by its author, gathering dust among his unfinished works. When composing [[Stepan Gedeonov|Gedeonov]]'s "[[Mlada]]", Mussorgsky had made use of the material to be found in "Night", and, introducing singing into it, had written the scene of [[Chernobog]] on Mount Triglav. That was the second form of the same piece in substance. Its third form had
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