Moussorgsky, Modest - Pictures at an Exhibition
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Moussorgsky, Modest - Pictures at an Exhibition

Catalogue No: ED9230
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Arrangementpiano
Product FormatSheet Music
ComposerMoussorgsky, Modest
EditorHeumann, Hans-Guenter
£15.99
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SeriesGet to Know Classical Masterpieces
Pages32
Publication Date5 September 2001
Grade of Difficultyintermediate
ISBN9783795756048 (3795756049)
ISMN9790001131377 (M001131377)

An exhibition of pictures by the painter Viktor Hartmann inspired Mussorgsky in 1874 to write ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, a cycle of pieces now regarded as the most significant piano work of this Russian master.

Contents

  1. Biography of the Composer: Modest P. Mussogsky
  2. History of the work: Pictures at an Exhibition
  3. Promenade
  4. The Gnome
  5. The Old Castle
  6. The Tuileries (Children Quarelling as They Play)
  7. Bydlo (Oxen Pulling a Cart)
  8. Ballet of the Little Chicks in Their Eggshells
  9. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
  10. The Market Square in Limoges
  11. Catacombs: The Roman Sepulchre
  12. Among the Dead in the Language of the Dead
  13. The Witch's Hut: Baba Yaga
  14. The Great Gate of Kiev
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