Find the best clips, watch programmes, catch up on the news, and read the latest modest mussorgsky interviews. Yet rather than just opting for a simple tribute, pictures at an exhibition is an imaginary musical tour through a collection of hartmanns drawings and watercolours. If you use and like, thank you to consider support donation. Mussorgsky promenade from pictures at an exhibition sheet. In format 0 all channels are integrated in one track, this is necessary for some keyboards. It remains his most popular work, famed as a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. Print and download promenade and the great gate of kiev sheet music. It is in the orchestrated form that the work is most often heard.
Mussorgskys promenade from pictures at an exhibition. Mar 24, 2020 modest mussorgsky, russian composer noted particularly for his opera boris godunov final version first performed 1874, his songs, and his piano piece pictures from an exhibition 1874. Mussorgskyravel persichetti prokofiev rachmaninoff ravel respighi rimskykorsakov schuman, w. Promenade pictures at an exhibition easy piano sheet music. Pictures at an exhibition is a famous piece of music for solo piano composed by modest mussorgsky in 1874. In 1857 he met balakirev, whom he asked for composition lessons. Dedicated the work to artist and architect friend viktor harmann and inspired in the exhibition of hartmanns work held after his death. This product is one section of my pictures at an exhibition by modest mussorgsky unit.
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