Night on Bald Mountain 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
Night on Bald Mountain наилучшим способом мысли Мусоргского. Задача была трудная, удовлетворительно разрешить которую мне не удавалось в течение двух лет, между тем как с другими сочинениями Мусоргского я справился сравнительно легко. Не давались мне ни форма, ни модуляции, ни оркестровка, и пьеса лежала без движения до следующего года.» Rimsky-Korsakov made "corrections" typical of him, as he did with "[[Khovanshchina]]", and was later to do with "[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]", preserving the general thematic structure, but adding or omitting bars, and making modifications to melody, harmony, rhythm, and dynamics. [[File:Night on the Bare Mountain Score Title Page Bessel 1886a.jpg|thumb|Title page of Rimsky-Korsakov's edition, published