Pictures at an Exhibition and Night on Bald Mountain are compositions by Modest Mussorgsky, composed in 1874 and 1867 respectively. Both works draw on Russian folk idioms and programme-based imagery, with Pictures characterised by a sequence of vividly characterised tableaux realised through rich pianistic and orchestral textures and Night on Bald Mountain presenting a turbulent, nocturnal tone poem marked by dramatic contrasts and chromatic colour, together exemplifying Mussorgsky's move towards a bolder harmonic language within late-Romantic Russian music.
