In a piece by this composer, the pianist plays octave tremolos in the right hand to depict the eerie light emitted by skulls.
In a piece by this composer, the pianist plays octave tremolos in the right hand to depict the eerie light emitted by skulls. This composer used a scene from Goethe's Faust in which Mephistopheles enters Auerbach's cellar as the basis of his "Song of the Flea." A suite by this composer begins with a piece alternating between 5/4 and 6/4 time, and includes the movements "Con (*) Mortuis in Lingua Mortua" and "The Market at Limoges." After this composer died, Rimsky-Korsakov edited many of his works, including a symphonic poem in which a church bell interrupts a witches' sabbath. Viktor Hartmann's sketches inspired him to write a piano suite that opens with a "Promenade." For 10 points, name this Russian composer of Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition
In a piece by this composer, the pianist plays octave tremolos in the right hand to depict the eerie light emitted by skulls.
Modest Mussorgsky [or Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky]