Night on Bald Mountain specifically by Herbert Stothart, who provided most of the underscoring for the film. A humorous adaptation of "Night on Bald Mountain" for brass band and kazoo was recorded by the Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band, and appears on the album "Retro Rooter". [[Category:Compositions by Modest Mussorgsky]] [[Category:Symphonic poems]] [[Category:Adaptations of works by Nikolai Gogol]] [[Category:1867 compositions]] [[Category:1886 compositions]] [[Category:Segments from Fantasia]] [[Category:Music based on European myths and legends]] [[Category:The Devil in fiction]] [[Category:The Devil in classical music]] Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain (), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions
Říp Mountain Říp Mountain Říp Mountain (, ; ), also known as Říp Hill, is a 459 m solitary hill rising up from the central Bohemian flatland where, according to legend, the first Czechs settled. Říp is located 20 km south-east of Litoměřice, Czech Republic. The mountain and the rotunda are among the Czech national cultural monuments. Geologically, Říp is the erosional remnant of a Late Oligocene volcano and is composed of basalt nephelites containing olivine granules, amphibole, leucite and — among others — magnetite, so a local magnetic anomaly can even be observed there by the compass. The hill was bare