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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 ...
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 as 1886, when Tushmalov was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov. Reports circulate ...
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel - Pictures at an Exhibition / Ravel - La Valse, Harmonia Mundi (2020) Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto n°1 & n°2, Sol Gabetta, cello, Les Siècles, conductor François-Xavier Roth. Warner (2021) Ravel - Piano Concertos, Mélodies, Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Stéphane Degout (baritone), Harmonia Mundi (2022)
The Stravinsky version of the finale (1913) follows Mussorgsky's notes more closely in that the ending fades away. The Shostakovich version attempts to provide a musical [ 8 ] conclusion of the opera by bringing back the theme of the sunrise from the Prelude to the opera.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky [a] (/ m ʊ ˈ s ɔːr ɡ s k i,-ˈ z ɔːr ɡ-/; 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.
"Night" 1868: 1868: Revised version, original composed in 1864; based on a text by Aleksandr Pushkin; "Hopak" 1868: 1868: Revised version, original composed in 1866; orchestrated; based on the epic poem Gaydamaki (1841) by Taras Shevchenko, translated by Lev Mey "The Orphan" 1868: 1868: Text by Mussorgsky "Yeryomushka's Lullaby" 1868: 1868
Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition movement 1 Pictures at an Exhibition was written for piano. This transcription for 2 pianos is by Russel Warner. Source: The Al Goldstein collection in the Pandora Music repository at ibiblio.org. Author: Played by Neal and Nancy O'Doan: Permission (Reusing this file)