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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 ...
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.
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 ...
One popular example of the use of the French C tuba is the Bydło movement in Ravel's orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, though the rest of the work is scored for this instrument as well. Larger BBB ♭ subcontrabass tubas exist but are extremely rare (there are at least four known examples).
Symphonic Music - Mussorgsky, Ravel Pictures At An Exhibition, Sviatoslav Richter; The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell (Columbia) Symphonic Music - Martinů Symphony Nos 5 & 6, Memorial to Lidice with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Karel Ančerl [ 12 ]
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky [a] (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский [b], romanized: Modest Petrovich Musorgsky [c], IPA: [mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj] ⓘ; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five.
Mussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures from an Exhibition Archived 30 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine 2008; Sibelius – Symphony No. 5 Archived 19 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine 2010; Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) Archived 11 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine 2010; Debussy – La Mer Archived 22 October 2011 at the Wayback ...