1471 Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

1471 Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

Years: 1874, 1886
Genre: Romantic Period, classical

I've been meaning to pick this suite from Modest Mussorgsky for a bit now.
Mussorgsky was supposedly inspired to write this 10 part suite of music after attending an exhibition of artwork from by his recently deceased close friend Viktor Hartmann in 1874; from what I've read about it, he wrote the entire piece in less than two months. However, it was apparently published posthumously in 1886 by his friend and fellow composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who was also a member of The Mighty Handful.

Here are the first two movements of the piece performed by Johnathan Plowright on YouTube.
Here are movements 3 and 4 of the piece performed by Johnathan Plowright on YouTube.
Here are movements 5 and 6 of the piece performed by Johnathan Plowright on YouTube.
Here are movements 7 and 8 of the piece performed by Johnathan Plowright on YouTube.
Here are movements 9 and 10 of the piece performed by Johnathan Plowright on YouTube.


My song pick a year ago today: Unheilig - Schutzengel

My song pick two year ago today: Jaco Pastorius - Chromatic Fantasy

My song pick three years ago today: The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day/Reach for the Sun

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