Pictures At An ExhibitionSet
of piano pieces inspired by paintings by Viktor Alexandrovich Hartman
('Promenade'; 'Gnome'; 'The Old Castle'; 'Tuileries'; 'Bydlo'; 'Ballet of
the Little Chicks'; 'Two Jews, one rich, one poor'; 'Promenade'; 'Market at
Limoges'; 'Catacombs'; 'With the Dead in a Dead Language'; 'Hut of Baba Yaga';
'Great Gates of Kiev'). Length 35 minutes. Many of the pieces are very
familiar, the most frequently played being the opening 'Promenade'; the
lament of the 'Old Castle'; and the evil menace of 'Baba Yaga'. The great
nonconformist among the Russian composer of the late nineteenth century,
Mussorgsky was always in search of a new Russian national music.
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