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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 ...
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 ...
Dec. 31: Orchestra Miami’s Free New Year’s Eve Celebration ... Op. 104; Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Celebration for Orchestra; Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition. KRAVIS.
Ravel made orchestral versions of piano works by Schumann, Chabrier, Debussy and Mussorgsky's piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. Orchestral versions of the last by Mikhail Tushmalov, Sir Henry Wood and Leo Funtek predated Ravel's 1922 version, and many more have been made since, but Ravel's remains the best known. [216]
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
Pictures at an Exhibition, a suite of ten piano pieces by Modest Mussorgsky, has been arranged over twenty times, notably by Maurice Ravel. [9] Ravel's arrangement demonstrates an "ability to create unexpected, memorable orchestral sonorities". [10] In the second movement, "Gnomus", Mussorgsky's original piano piece simply repeats the following ...
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