Pictures at an Exhibition: A Reminiscence of Victor Hartmann

Modest Musorgsky is a famous composer of programmatic music with his best example being Pictures at an Exhibition: a series of short pieces, all pertaining to his close friends paintings, Viktor Hartman. Musorgsky and Hartman's relationship was founded in their passion for art and music. Hartman's paintings were a large source of inspiration for Musorgsky and his compositions, where each section of Pictures was written to represent a certain painting. Not only were the pieces written to represent a painting, the mood that is depicted in each painting is reflected in each piece. The structure of Pictures resembles a trip to an art exhibition, with it's promenades between the main paintings/pieces.
Modest Musorgsky was born in Karevo, in the province of Pskov (south of St. Petersburg) on March 9, 1839. He was from a very wealthy family, descendants of the first Russian ruler, Rurik in ca 830. Musorgsky received piano......

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