Orchestre d'Harmonie
Pictures at an Exhibition
Bilder einer Ausstellung
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Includes:
1. Promenade
2. The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba-Yaga)
3. With the Dead in a Dead Language
4. Catacombs (A Roman Sepulchre)
5. Limoges, the Market Square (the Big News)
6. Promenade
7. Samuel Goldberg and Schmuijle
8. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
9. Promenade
10. Bydlo
11. Tuileries (Children Quarrelling at Play)
12. Promenade
13. The Old Castle
14. Promenade
15. The Gnome
16. The Bagatyr Gate (at Kiev, the Ancient Capital)
The Russian composer Mussorgsky was for the most part self-taught. His contemporaries were not always enthusiastic about the innovations in his music and accused him of lacking technique. Today, however, Mussorgsky is considered the innovator of Russian music par excellence. Although he gained fame primarily as a composer of operas and songs, Mussorgsky also wrote a number of piano works; for example the suite Pictures at an Exhibition, from 1874.