Baerenreiter Verlag Pictures at an Exhibition: A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann - Mussorgsky/Flamm - Piano - Book

Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Editor: Christoph Flamm
Format: Book, Urtext Edition
Instrumentation: Piano

• Scholarly-critical Urtext edition based on all the sources
• Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng) and suggestions on performance practice
• Clear musical layout

The catalyst for the piano cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition", composed in 1874, was a memorial exhibition held that year for the artist and architect Viktor Hartmann. He was a friend of Mussorgsky who had died in 1873. It is not only Mussorgsky's most important contribution to the piano repertoire, but through its relationship to Hartmann's pictures and the translation of this idea into a composition, the cycle holds a unique place in 19th century piano repertoire.

Christoph Flamm,
an internationally renowned specialist of Russian music of the 19th and early 20th centuries, has edited this Urtext edition for Baerenreiter. He has re-evaluated the sources and in the process has discovered surprising variant readings of the well-known musical text. The edition will meet the demands of advanced piano students, teachers and pianists.

Contents:

• Promenade
• 1. Gnomus (The Gnome)
• Moderato comodo assai e con delicatezza
• 2. Il vecchio Castello (The Old Castle)
• Moderato non tanto, pesantemente
• 3. Tuilleries. Dispute d'enfants apres jeux (The Tuileries. Dispute between Children after Play)
• 4. Bydlo (Cattle)
• 5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
• 6. "Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmuyle"
• Promenade
• 7. Limoges. Le marche. La grande nouvelle (The Market at Limoges. The Big News)
• 8. Catacombae. Sepulcrum romanum (Catacombs. Roman Sepulcher)
• [Cum mortuis in lingua mortua] (With the Dead in a Dead Language)
• 9. The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
• 10. The Heroic Gate (in the Old Capital of Kiev)