In a simple arrangement
KL - piano - English
editor: Heumann, Hans-Guenter
composer: Moussorgsky, Modeste
Product Line: Get to Know Classical Masterpieces
Difficulty: intermediate
Pages: 32

An exhibition of pictures by the painter Viktor Hartmann inspired Mussorgsky in 1874 to write ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’, a cycle of pieces now regarded as the most significant piano work of this Russian master.
Content
- Biography of the Composter: Modest P. Mussogsky
- History of the work: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Promenade
- The Gnome
- The Old Castle
- The Tuileries (Children Quarelling as They Play)
- Bydlo (Oxen Pulling a Cart)
- Ballet of the Little Chicks in Their Eggshells
- Samuel Goldenberg and Schmyle
- The Market Square in Limoges
- Catacombs: The Roman Sepulchre
- Among the Dead in the Language of the Dead
- The Witch's Hut: Baba Yaga
- The Freat Gate of Kiev