Night on Bald Mountain it. To salvage what he considered worthy material, Mussorgsky attempted to insert his "Bald Mountain" music, recast for vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, into two subsequent projects—the collaborative opera-ballet "Mlada" (1872), and the opera "The Fair at Sorochyntsi" (1880). However, "Night on Bald Mountain" was never performed in any form during Mussorgsky's lifetime. In 1886, five years after Mussorgsky's death, Rimsky-Korsakov published an arrangement of the work, described as a "fantasy for orchestra." Some musical scholars consider this version to be an original composition of Rimsky-Korsakov, albeit one based on Mussorgsky's last version of the music, for "The Fair at
Night on Bald Mountain is also the most literal. The adjective "bald" is commonly used in English place names for barren hills, mountains, and other features, and so is also idiomatic. However, because the most familiar use of "bald" describes hairlessness, this part of the title is also known as "Bare Mountain". The use of "bald" to describe barren landscapes is common in European languages. In French, the piece is known as ' and in Italian ' ("A Night on Bald Mountain"). Some performances of the work also insert the article "the" before "Bald Mountain" or "Bare Mountain". Articles are not used in Russian,