Night on Bald Mountain Baron Georgiy Mengden, a military friend of the composer. In 1860 Mussorgsky informed Balakirev that he had been commissioned to write one act of an opera on this subject: However, as with the previous project, it is unknown whether any materials were written down, and, if so, whether they were transferred to subsequent projects. Rimsky-Korsakov declares in his memoirs ("Chronicle of My Musical Life") that in the early 1860s Mussorgsky, under the influence of Franz Liszt's "Totentanz", had written a version of the "Bald Mountain" music for piano and orchestra. However, it is believed that Mussorgsky did not hear Liszt's
Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water songs and other works by Delius with choral music by Arnold Bax. Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water Two Songs to be sung of a summer night on the water, Op. 91, were composed by Frederick Delius in 1917. He set the wordless works for choir a cappella. The songs were published in 1920 and first performed in 1921. Delius composed the songs at Grez-sur-Loing in 1917. He set them for six-part choir, SATTBB, without words, but vocalises on the syllable "uh". The first song is marked "slow but not dragging", the other which