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 by [[V. Bessel and Co.]]]] Rimsky-Korsakov's edition was completed in 1886, and published in the same year by [[V. Bessel and Co.]]. It received its premiere on 15 October 1886 in [[St. Petersburg]]'s Kononov Hall, performed by the orchestra of the [[Russian Symphony Concerts]]. Rimsky-Korsakov conducted the performance himself, and gives the following account of it in his memoirs, "Chronicle of My Musical Life" (1909): The orchestration of "A Night on Bald Mountain", which had baffled me so long, was finished for the concerts of [the 1886/87] season, and the piece, given by me at the first concert in a