Pictures at an Exhibition: Mussorgsky. for Piano. Urtext edition

By Modest Mussorgsky and Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Revised edition August 2024 Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vystavki) by Modest P. Mussorgsky (1839-1881) is a demanding piano work written in 1874, composed for the posthumous exhibition of paintings and drawings by the architect and illustrator Viktor A. Hartmann (1834-1873 ). Mussorgsky and Hartmann possibly met in the mid-1870s, by their mutual friend Vladimir V. Stasov (1824-1906), to whom the work is also dedicated.This urtext version is based solely on the autograph manuscript as the main source, however, the first revised edition by Nikolay A. Rimsky-Korsakov has also been consulted, which was published in 1886 by V. Bessel in Saint Petersburg, a copy that we were able to access at the National Humanities Foundation.On the cover of the manuscript is the signature of the composer and the precise date of completion: Petersburg, June 22, 1874. On the cover are written a few words by the composer's hand: "Dedicated to Vladimir Vasilyevic Stasov /" Pictures at an Exhibition "- / Memories of Viktor Hartmann. / By M. Mussorgsky. - / 1874. " On the left of the cover, the composer added: "For you, généralissime, the organizer of the exhibition, in memory of our dear Viktor, on June 27".Although the autograph is neatly written, the musical text of our edition reflects Mussorgsky's manuscript as closely as possible, although the composer was unable to provide names for the "Promenades" that follow Gnomus and Il Vecchio Castello, likewise, there are unnecessary duplications of the same note in different voices, possibly by mistake, however, these provide clues about their musical intentions for performance and which have, in some cases, been omitted to achieve the standards of modern writing. All accidental warnings that are redundant have been reduced to provide more convenience for the performer to read and study. All editor suggestions have been placed in square brackets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08WZ4P3VY
• ISBN13: 9798712421619
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"