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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.
Pictures at an Exhibition is a live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in November 1971 on Island Records.It features the group's rock adaptation of Pictures at an Exhibition, the piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky, performed at Newcastle City Hall on 26 March 1971.
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 ...
Mussorgsky's most imaginative and frequently performed work is the cycle of piano pieces describing paintings in sound called Pictures at an Exhibition. This composition, best known through an orchestral arrangement by Maurice Ravel, was written in commemoration of his friend, the architect Viktor Hartmann.
Great Gate of Kyiv, which is also known as one of the Bogatyr Gates of Kyiv: . Golden Gate, Kyiv 11th century gate of Kyiv and 20th century reconstruction as a museum; The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kyiv), movement 10 of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky, also known as "The Great Gate of Kyiv"
Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten piano pieces composed by Modest Mussorgsky. Pictures at an Exhibition may also refer to: Pictures at an Exhibition (Stokowski orchestration), a 1939 orchestration by Leopold Stokowski; Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album), a 1971 album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Youthful Years: A Collection of Romances and Songs (Russian: Юные годы: сборник романсов и песен, romanized: Yunïye godï: sbornik romansov i pesen) is a bound series of 18 manuscripts of songs by Mussorgsky, the existence of which was announced by Charles Malherbe in 1909.
Pictures at an Exhibition is a ballet choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to Mussorgsky's eponymous score. The ballet premiered on October 2, 2014, at the David H. Koch Theater, danced by the New York City Ballet.