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  1. Pictures at an Exhibition 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 ...

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  3. Mussorgsky wrote his Pictures at an Exhibition in honour of a friend - a painter called Vladimir Hartmann who had died at the peak of his career, aged just 39.

  4. Jan 20, 2021 · Pictures at an Exhibition was composed in 1874, and is perhaps Mussorgsky’s most popular and performed pieces in the modern-day. It was originally composed as a piano suite, however, the more famous and popular version is an arrangement for a full orchestra by Maurice Ravel.

  5. Perhaps one of the finest examples of the link between art and music is Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, composed in 1874. Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) wrote this famous suite of ten piano pieces (plus a recurring and varied Promenade) in response to the death of his friend Viktor Hartmann (1834 – 1873).

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  6. Mussorgsky-Horowitz: Pictures at an Exhibition (1951) HS: HorowitzScores™. 9.43K subscribers. 31K views 2 years ago. ...more. April 23, 1951: Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York (Live ...

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  7. Mussorgsky’s enthusiastic and reverent homage to Hartmann is a series of musical depictions of ten of the artist’s canvasses, all of which hang as vividly in aural space as their visual progenitors occupied physical space.

  8. He composed Pictures at an Exhibition as a set of piano pieces in June 1874. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) made his orchestral transcription in the summer of 1922 for Serge Koussevitzky, who introduced the Ravel version at one of his own concerts in Paris on October 22, 1922, and led the American premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra early in ...

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