Anywhere between 30-40 minutes.
"Pictures At an Exhibition" is a set of piano pieces by Modest Mussorgsky, inspired by an exhibition of paintings by his friend Viktor Hartmann. The whole work has been orchestrated several times, the most famous and successful by Maurice Ravel.
The opening 'Promenade' from Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' in the orchestration by Maurice Ravel.
Pictures at an Exhibition was first a piano work by Modest Mussorgsky, which was composed by him upon hearing of the passing of his friend the painter of the works. It was then orchestrated by Ravel a number of years earlier. Each work describes a different picture, as if they were seen at an exhibition in a gallery. One of them describes the little hut on chicken legs, and is from a Russian folk tale, "The hut of Baba Yaga". The last one is the most dramatic and presents us with the "Great gates of Kiev", the capitol city of the Ukraine.
It is unlikely, as Mussorgsky's suite, although composed in 1874, was not printed until 1886, by which time Mussorgsky had been dead for 5 years. There is no available information as to the first performance, likely given by Mussorgsky himself, so any connection to Tchaikovsky can only be speculative.
Mussorgsky
There are ten.
Viktor Hartmann.
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky has written: 'Pictures from an exhibition' 'Khovanshchina'
i believe it was 1874
Anywhere between 30-40 minutes.
Modest Mussorgsky composed a suite called Pictures at an Exhibition. The suite was written in honor of his friend, Vladimir Hartmann, a painter, who died at the age of 39.The musical pieces in "Pictures at an Exhibition" try to capture in music the sketches, watercolors and architectural designs that were shown publicly at the Hartmann exhibition along with other canvasses that Hartmann had shown Mussorgsky.Thus the term, "Where Music and Art Meet" is used to describe Pictures at an Exhibition.
Modest Mussorgsky, a Russian composer, composed "Pictures at an Exhibition" in 1874. Maurice Ravel's arrangement of the piano suite is very well known.
Mussorgsky played the piano. One of his most famous works is the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition," a series of pieces with the titles of paintings by his friend Viktor Hartmann, interspersed with a varying Promenade theme, the whole meant to depict someone walking in an exhibition of the paintings.
The most unusual I can think of is Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 1971 album, 'Pictures at an ExhibitionSee the related link's Arrangements and Interpretations for more.
Mussorgsky played the piano. One of his most famous works is the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition," a series of pieces with the titles of paintings by his friend Viktor Hartmann, interspersed with a varying Promenade theme, the whole meant to depict someone walking in an exhibition of the paintings.
"Pictures At an Exhibition" is a set of piano pieces by Modest Mussorgsky, inspired by an exhibition of paintings by his friend Viktor Hartmann. The whole work has been orchestrated several times, the most famous and successful by Maurice Ravel.