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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 ...
Ravel in 1925. Joseph Maurice Ravel [n 1] (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living ...
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.
Toscanini Collection, Volume 35 – Elgar & Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma" NBC Symphony Orchestra: 1951–1953 RCA Gold Seal: Toscanini Collection, Volume 30 - Richard Strauss. Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35* / Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24
Night on Bald Mountain: 1866: 1867 — 1968: Orchestra: Intermezzo symphonique in modo classico: Symphonic Intermezzo in the Classic Style: 1867: 1867 — Revision: 1883: Bessel Orchestra: Подибрад чешский: Podebrad of Bohemia: 1867: 1867 — Projected — — Orchestra: Взятие Карса: The Capture of Kars: 1880: 1880 ...
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Mussorgsky's original vocal score remained unfinished. The final portion of the libretto must be reconstructed from Mussorgsky's themes. The Rimsky-Korsakov edition (1883) adds to the final hymn figures representing flames, trumpet fanfares, and a final reprise of the "March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment" that concludes act 4.