Pictures at an exhibition piano mussorgsky biography
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition is a piece of music for solo piano composed by Modest Mussorgsky in It is Mussorgsky’s most famous solo piano work and often played by virtuosos to show how good they are.
Pictures at an exhibition piano mussorgsky biography
Many years after Mussorgsky’s death, Maurice Ravel made an arrangement of the piece for orchestra. This version, by a Russian composer and a French arranger, is how people usually hear the music today.
Composition history
[change | change source]Pictures at an Exhibition is a musical description of an exhibition of pictures by the painter Viktor Hartmann.
Hartmann was only 39 when he died in He and Mussorgsky had been good friends. They both tried to give their works a very Russian character: Hartmann through his pictures and Mussorgsky through his music.
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In an exhibition of Hartmann’s pictures was organised in the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg. Mussorgsky went to the exhibition and was inspired to compose his piano piece.
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