Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Masterworks Library (Score)
Based on the original printed score of 1929, including facsimile of Ravel's manuscript. Pictures at an Exhibition
is a composition born quickly and virtually painlessly. Mussorgsky exulted: “Ideas, melodies, come to me of their
own accord. Like roast pigeons in the story, I gorge and gorge and overeat myself. I can hardly manage to put it all
down on paper fast enough.” The fevered inspiration was activated by a posthumous exhibit in 1874 of watercolors
and drawings by the composer’s dear friend Victor Hartmann, who had died suddenly the previous year at the age of
39. Mussorgsky’s enthusiastic and reverent homage to Hartmann takes form as a series of musical depictions of 10 of
the artist’s canvases, all of which hang as vividly in aural space as their visual progenitors occupied physical space.
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