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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) Borodin Symphony no 2/Polovtsian Dances Rachmaninov Symphony no 2/Vocalise/Piano ConcertonNo 2 Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini/Symphonic Dances Shostakovich Symphony nos 1, 4, 10, 14 Prokofiev Symphony No 5/Scythian Suite/Piano Concerto no 1 Gubaidulina Zeitesstalten (excerpt)
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 ...
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 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 ...