This man wrote a dance which sees the bass accompaniment first plucked below the third melodic phrase, then bowed when the phrase returns, while the dancers squat and kick their legs.
This composer's piano works include a Passionate Impromptu inspired by Aleksandr Herzen's Who is to Blame? He depicted a boy foiling Matros the cat's attempt on a canary's life in a song from his cycle The Nursery. One collection by this composer includes a trepak in which a drunken peasant dreams of summer fields while caught in a blizzard and a piece in which its title figure is disguised as a victorious field marshal. This man wrote a dance which sees the bass accompaniment first plucked below the third melodic phrase, then bowed when the phrase returns, while the dancers squat and kick their legs. That work is the Gopak from this composer's unfinished opera Sorochyntsi Fair, which also featured a passage called "Dream of the Peasant Lad" that Rimsky-Korsakov used in his orchestration of a tone poem by this man based on Gogol's "St. John's Eve". That work ends with a tolling bell symbolizing the breaking of day that also interrupts a witches' sabbath. For 10 points, identify this composer of Songs and Dances of Death and Night on Bald Mountain.
This composer's piano works include a Passionate Impromptu inspired by Aleksandr Herzen's Who is to Blame?
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky