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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
The Cleveland Orchestra began a long-running association with the Columbia Masterworks label under conductor Artur Rodziński. Successors Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, and Lorin Maazel all recorded for Columbia, with some early Szell records being assigned to Columbia's budget sub-label, Epic. Szell's recordings with Cleveland in particular ...
Mussorgsky first intended to close with a single chord, but later decided on a final quintet. Act 3 1. Chorus of Old Believers 31 December 1875 2. Marfa's song 18 August 1873 Orchestrated by Mussorgsky, 24–25 November 1879. Originally written in F major; Mussorgsky later transposed it to G major, allowing the Old Believer's chorus to connect ...
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Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel) Pictures at an Exhibition: Suite 1874 — 68 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5: Symphony E minor Op. 64 1888 — 67 Mahler Symphony No. 1 : Symphony D major 1888 — 66 Stravinsky The Rite of Spring: Ballet 1913 97 +31 65 Schubert String Quartet No. 14 (Death and the Maiden) Quartet D minor D. 810 1824 — 64 Grieg