Pictures at an Exhibition

In a simple arrangement

Composer: Mussorgsky, Modest

Editor: Heumann, Hans-Guenter

illustration: Smith, Brigitte

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.

Content text:

• Biography of the Composter: Modest P. Mussogsky
• History of the work: Pictures at an Exhibition
• Promenade
• The Gnome
• The Old Castle
• The Tuileries (Children Quarelling as They Play)
• Bydlo (Oxen Pulling a Cart)
• Ballet of the Little Chicks in Their Eggshells
• Samuel Goldenberg and Schmyle
• The Market Square in Limoges
• Catacombs: The Roman Sepulchre
• Among the Dead in the Language of the Dead
• The Witch's Hut: Baba Yaga
• The Freat Gate of Kiev

Difficulty: intermediate