Editing Modest Mussorgsky (section)

==In popular culture==
Mussorgsky's tone poem ''[[Night on Bald Mountain]]'' was used in the 1940 animated film ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'', accompanied by an animation of [[Chernobog]] summoning evil spirits on a mountain. It segues into ''[[Ave Maria]]'' by [[Franz Schubert]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2015/11/13/fantasia-bald-mountain-ave-maria|title=From 'Bald Mountain' to 'Ave Maria': The hell-to-heaven 'Fantasia' climax|first=Jay|last=Gabler|website=www.classicalmpr.org|date=13 November 2015 }}</ref>

The [[progressive rock]] band [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]] performed and recorded an arrangement of Mussorgsky's ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' in 1971, featuring lyrics by [[Greg Lake]], and released it as [[Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)|a live album of the same name]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.popmatters.com/emerson-lake-and-palmer-pictures-at-an-exhibition-2496215209.html |title=Emerson Lake and Palmer: Pictures at an Exhibition |date=11 September 2007 |website=PopMatters}}</ref>

The first 20 seconds of [[Michael Jackson]]'s 1995 song "[[HIStory (song)|HIStory]]" relies on an orchestrated version of "The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev)" fragment of ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition#10. The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev)|The Pictures at an Exhibition]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vogel |first1=Joseph |title=Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson |date=2011 |publisher=[[Sterling Publishing|Sterling]] |isbn=978-1-4027-7938-1 |pages=223–224 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x72quAAACAAJ |access-date=23 October 2020}}</ref>

The 2020 film ''[[Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga]]'' starring [[Dan Stevens]] as Alexander Lemtov, a flamboyant singer representing Russia, had a [[Anti-Russian sentiment#Hollywood and video games|non-typical Russian character]] development as an obvious cultural reference to Modest Mussorgsky, also known domestically for encouraging a female opera singer {{ill|Daria Leonova|ru|Леонова, Дарья Михайловна}} to compose a classical song "Letter After the Ball".<ref>{{cite web |title=Leonova or Mussorgsky? Authorship of the Romance Song "Letter After the Ball" as a Source of Study, Historical and Cultural Problem |url=https://www.academia.edu/42306626 |website=academia.edu |publisher={{ill|State Institute of Art Studies|ru|Государственный институт искусствознания}} |access-date=14 September 2020 |date=2018|language=ru}}</ref>