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Chernabog's minions are various evil creatures who gather on Walpurgis Night at Bald Mountain after being summoned by Chernabog. The Monks move in procession while crossing the meadow, going over a bridge and through the woods until the crack of dawn arrives as the choir sings the last chords of the Ave Maria.
A float of Disney's rendition of Chernabog, holding the Wicked Queen from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. An alternative version of Chernobog named Chernabog appears in the symphonic poem Night on Bald Mountain by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. He is depicted as a giant winged demon summoning the souls of the dead.
It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's version that Night on Bald Mountain achieved lasting fame. Premiering in Saint Petersburg in 1886, the work became a concert favourite. Half a century later, the work obtained perhaps its greatest exposure through the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia (1940), featuring an arrangement by Leopold Stokowski, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's version.
Chernabog the demon from the Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria segment appears as a painting in the first game and appears in the Night on Bald Mountain film reel levels in the second). [233] The Disney/Square Enix crossover game series Kingdom Hearts features Chernabog as a boss in the first installment. [234]
The Disney/Square Enix crossover game series Kingdom Hearts features Chernabog as a boss in the first installment and in Dream Drop Distance. The Night on Bald Mountain piece is played during the fight. Yen Sid appears frequently in the series beginning with Kingdom Hearts II, voiced in English by Corey Burton.
In his Disney career, Tytla is particularly noted for the animation in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia (The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria Segments) and Dumbo. He was inducted as a Disney Legend in 1998. [2] He was also known as the creator of Little Audrey for Paramount Pictures. [3]
[12] [13] Her work was featured in four sequences in the film Fantasia (1940), including animating the villain Chernabog in the final segment "Night on Bald Mountain". [14] For the segment, Swiss artist Albert Hurter had been hired to create inspirational pencil sketches.
According to one of the film's directors, Kirk Wise, Frollo's song "Hellfire" needed a visual sequence more meaningful and powerful than past Disney animated features, akin to the Night on Bald Mountain sequence in Disney's Fantasia (1940), which depicted the devil Chernabog rallying his demons for a single night.