Night on Bald Mountain Study Score
Night on Bald Mountain Study Score by Modest Mussorgsky, published by Serenissima Music, Incorporated on September 5, 2018, is presented in an Urtext edition spanning 94 pages. This work, one of the first Russian tone poems, originated in the late 1850s when Mussorgsky began sketches for an opera based on a witches’ sabbath. Although the opera was never completed, Mussorgsky transformed the material into a tone poem, which he finalized on St. John’s Eve in 1867. The piece remained unperformed during his lifetime and underwent several revisions before being arranged posthumously by Rimsky-Korsakov.
Readers will find a detailed score that reflects Rimsky-Korsakov’s popular arrangement, which was based on Mussorgsky’s themes and later gained fame through its inclusion in the 1939 Disney film Fantasia. This edition, newly engraved by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr., provides an accessible version of the orchestral tone poem, which is often viewed as a fantasy inspired by Mussorgsky’s original ideas. The score encompasses elements of classical music and orchestration, making it a valuable resource for musicians and enthusiasts interested in the evolution of this significant work in the classical repertoire.
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One of the first Russian tone poems, Night on Bald Mountain had its genesis in the late 1850s when Mussorgsky started sketches for a projected opera: St. John’s Eve (1858), later changed to The Witch (1860) – based upon a scenario about a witches’ sabbath on St. John’s Eve. These were abandonded by the early 1860s but Mussorgsky contemplated a tone poem using the material featuring piano and orchestra along the lines of Liszt’s Totentanz. The work was finally completed on St. John’s Eve (June 23) of 1867 as an orchestral tone poem entited St. John’s Eve on the Bare Mountain.
The symphonic poem was never performed in the composer’s lifetime. After rejection for performance, Mussorgsky reworked the material two more times for operatic projects that never materialized. After the composer’s death his friend Rimsky-Korsakov prepared a new arrangement based on the last version composed for the opera Sorochintsy Fair which was published in 1886. Rimsky’s arrangement became very popular, especially after its use in the 1939 Walt Disney film Fantasia in a very bowldwerized orchestration made by Leopold Stowkowski. Rimsky’s setting is the work offered here – in a newly engraved edition by Richard W. Sargeant, Jr. It is now often regarded as more of a fantasy on themes by Mussorgsky composed by Rimsky-Korsakov.
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