Pictures at an Exhibition

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Pictures at an Exhibition is a famous 1874 piano suite by Modest Mussorgsky, inspired by an art exhibition and later widely known through orchestral arrangements, especially Maurice Ravel’s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf musical composition
piano suite
alsoKnownAs Kartinki s vystavki NERFINISHED
basedOnWorksBy Viktor Hartmann NERFINISHED
catalogueNumber without opus number
composer Modest Mussorgsky NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
dateCompleted 1874-06-22
dedicatedTo Vladimir Stasov NERFINISHED
firstPublicationDate 1886
firstPublisher W. Bessel & Co. NERFINISHED
genre classical music
hasOrchestralVersion Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer rock adaptation) NERFINISHED
Pictures at an Exhibition (Henry Wood orchestration) NERFINISHED
Pictures at an Exhibition (Leopold Stokowski orchestration) NERFINISHED
Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration) NERFINISHED
Pictures at an Exhibition (Sergei Gorchakov orchestration) NERFINISHED
Pictures at an Exhibition (Vladimir Ashkenazy orchestration) NERFINISHED
hasPart Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks NERFINISHED
Bydło NERFINISHED
Catacombs
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
Gnomus NERFINISHED
Limoges, the Market NERFINISHED
Promenade NERFINISHED
Promenade (recurring theme) NERFINISHED
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle NERFINISHED
The Great Gate of Kiev NERFINISHED
The Hut on Fowl’s Legs NERFINISHED
The Old Castle NERFINISHED
Tuileries NERFINISHED
hasRecording numerous piano and orchestral recordings
influenced orchestral repertoire through Ravel’s arrangement
inspiredBy art exhibition of Viktor Hartmann NERFINISHED
key various keys
language instrumental
movementOrder Promenade – Gnomus – Promenade – The Old Castle – Promenade – Tuileries – Bydło – Promenade – Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks – Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle – Promenade – Limoges, the Market – Catacombs – Cum mortuis in lingua mortua – The Hut on Fowl’s Legs – The Great Gate of Kiev NERFINISHED
notableArrangementBy Maurice Ravel NERFINISHED
notableArrangementType orchestral arrangement
notableFeature programmatic depiction of paintings and drawings
recurring Promenade theme linking movements
numberOfMovements 10
originalInstrumentation solo piano
originalTitleLanguage Russian
period Romantic era
placeComposed Russia NERFINISHED
prominentKeyOfFinalMovement E-flat major
structure suite of movements
style Romantic
subjectMatter imaginary tour of an art exhibition
yearComposed 1874

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer adaptedWork Pictures at an Exhibition
this entity surface form: Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Viktor Hartmann inspiredWork Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky notableWork Pictures at an Exhibition