Pictures at an Exhibition, Modest Mussorgsky - Piano Solo

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In memory of the deceased illustrator and architect Viktor A. Hartmann (1834 1873), an exhibition of his watercolours and drawings was organised in 1874. Modest Mussorgsky, who had been Hartmanns friend, was inspired by his visit to this exhibition to compose the cycle Pictures at an Exhibition for piano solo, a milestone of piano literature. He wrote it in June 1874 in St. Petersburg and subtitled it Memories of Viktor Hartmann.
The picturesque and evocative musical language, which lets the pictures come to life, has remained fascinating to the present day.

Pictures at an Exhibition

Promenade I
 1. Gnomus

Promenade II
 2. Il vecchio Castello
 
Promenade III
 3. les Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux)
 4. Bydlo
 
Promenade IV
 5. Ballet der unausgeschlûpften Kücken / Ballet of the unhatched Chickens
 6. Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
 
Promenade V
 7. Limoges. Le marché (La grande nouvelle)
 8. Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum)
 
Cum mortius in lingua mortua
 9. Die Hütte auf Hühnerbeinen (Baba-Jaga / The Hut on Chicken's Legs (Baba Yaga)
 10. Das Heldentor (in der Thronstadt Kiew / The Heroic Gate (in the Imperial City of Kiev) / Great Gate of Kiev