"The Old Castle" and "The Gnome" are among the movements of a piano work by this composer of Songs and Dances of Death; that work, which was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, ends with "The Great Gate of Kiev."
A trip to Gurzuf inspired this man to compose a pair of piano pieces, the second of which is subtitled "Baydarki Capriccio." One of his song cycles features a Trepak in which a peasant thinks of summertime while freezing in a blizzard. That work ends with a song depicting the title figure as a Field-Marshal. Another piece by him ends shortly after a distant (*) church-bell causes the "spirits of darkness" to disperse. "The Old Castle" and "The Gnome" are among the movements of a piano work by this composer of Songs and Dances of Death; that work, which was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, ends with "The Great Gate of Kiev." For 10 points, name this member of the Mighty Five who composed Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at an Exhibition.
A trip to Gurzuf inspired this man to compose a pair of piano pieces, the second of which is subtitled "Baydarki Capriccio.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky [or variants of "Musersky" for the surname, apparently]