Night on Bald Mountain
Orchestral piece composed by Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky was a Russian composer who lived from 1839 to 1881.
The piece tells the story about a witches’ Sabbath, which is a supernatural gathering.
It was inspired by Russian folklore about evil spirits and witches.
This music was used in the 1940 Disney movie called “Fantasia.”
- Word bank
- folklore
- chromatic
- Russian
- witches'
- Fantasia
- spirits
- dynamics
- bassoon
- supernatural
- dawn
- dissonant