What do "The Great Gate of Kiev-Bogatyr Gate" and "The Tuileries" have in common?

"Pictures in an Exhibition" is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

Mussorgsky based his musical material on drawings and watercolours by Hartmann produced mostly during the artist's travels abroad. Locales include Italy, France, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Today most of the pictures from the Hartmann exhibition are lost, making it impossible to be sure in many cases which Hartmann works Mussorgsky had in mind. The exhibition took place in St. Petersburg in 1874.

"The Great Gate of Kiev-Bogatyr Gate" and "The Tuileries" are two of the pictures to which the musical movement was written.

The suite was orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922.

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sftcw

Vimala Padmaraj, Your comment is not understandable.

klmilles

Pat Salloum, Unless you are familiar with Mussorgsky's music (and ELP's modern interpretation, which is spectacular). Many symphonies perform the classic version, sometimes with available pictures projected above them. These are lovely musical opportunities.

Carole Benner

Vimala Padmaraj, or do you mean “my MIND”. Do you also contribute as an author ?

Nicholas Miernicki

One of my favorite pieces of music.

David Roy

'Pictures in an exhibition'? I know transliterating from Russian can lead to a slightly different form of words but I've only ever heard it called 'Pictures at an exhibition'.

Pat Salloum

If I have this right: Two different pieces of architecture, painted by Hartmann and exhibited in 1874, were inspirations for a piece of (instrumental) piano music! Not the kind of information most people would have, that's for sure!!