Night on Bald Mountain his manuscripts for publication and created performing editions of his unfinished works to enable them to enter the repertoire. The majority of the editorial work was done by [[Rimsky-Korsakov]], who in 1886 produced a redacted edition of "Night on Bald Mountain" from the "Dream Vision of the Peasant Lad" [[vocal score]]. Rimsky-Korsakov discusses his work on the piece, designated a "fantasy for orchestra", in his memoirs, "Chronicle of My Musical Life" (1909): During the season of 1882/83, I continued working on "[[Khovanshchina]]" and other compositions of Mussorgsky's. "A Night on Bald Mountain" was the only thing I could not find
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day five and nine, as well as the erasures before "sunshine" and "above" suggest that the poem was written hastily. One interpretation by Winidred Gerin says that in the poem "emotion and expression have achieved a fusion as felicitous as it is rare in Brontë's writing, is probably the best poem she ever wrote, though not the most characteristic". The poem is based upon an actual experience of Brontë's. A note stating "Composed in the Long-Plantation on a wild bright windy day", was written in Anne Brontë's hand at the bottom of the manuscript and the "Long-Plantation" was identified by Edward