Mussorgski - Pictures at an exhibition for piano

Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski for piano
In commemoration of Viktor Hartmann

Edited from the autograph by Manfred Schandert
Suggestions for performance and fingering by Vladimir Ashkenazy

Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.
The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's arrangement being the most recorded and performed.

Titles :

• Promenade
• Gnomus
• (Promenade)
• Il vecchio castello
• (Promenade)
• Tuileries (disputes d'enfants après jeux)
• Bydlo
• (Promenade)
• Ballett der nicht ausgeschlüpften Küchlein
• Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuÿle
• Promenade
• Limoges
• Le marché (la grande nouvelle)
• Catacombas (Sepulcrum romanum)
• Con mortuis in lingua mortua
• Die Hütte auf Hühnerfüssen (Baba-Jaga)
• Das Bogatyr-Tor (in der alten Hauptstadt Kiew)