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Pictures at an Exhibition [a] is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year.
Leopold Stokowski's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky was completed in 1939 and premiered later that year, on 17 November, by the Philadelphia Orchestra. [1] Mussorgsky's original 1874 composition was a suite for piano, however, the piece has gained most of its fame through the many orchestrations of it that have ...
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The opening bars of Tushmalov's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. [2] [1] Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed as early ...
In Rimsky-Korsakov's version, connecting bars are written to make it possible to cut this scene. Mussorgsky later shortened this scene. 4. Intervention of Dosifey and Marfa's confession 13 February 1876 Mussorgsky later shortened this scene. 5. Shaklovity's aria 6 January 1876 6. Streltsy enter 30 May 1876 Orchestrated by Mussorgsky 7.
Mussorgsky's most imaginative and frequently performed work is the cycle of piano pieces describing paintings in sound called Pictures at an Exhibition. This composition, best known through an orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel , was written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann .
Text by Mussorgsky; part of The Nursery "Going to Sleep" 1870: 1870: Text by Mussorgsky; part of The Nursery "The Peep-Show" 1870: 1870: Text by Mussorgsky; satire "Evening Song" 1871: 1871: Based on a text by Aleksey Pleshcheyev At the Dacha: 1872: 1881: Text by Mussorgsky; unfinished cycle of songs; the two songs completed were later included ...
Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records. It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition , the piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky , performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.