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M Mussorgsky, Modest 1839 - 1881 · Romantic

Pictures at an Exhibition

Картинки с выставки ; Tableaux d'une Exposition ; Bilder einer Austellung ; Pictures from the Exhibition (exact translation)
Romantic

Dedicated to Vladimir Stassov.

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Composed
1874 (June 2-22)
First published
1886* St. Petersburg: V. Bessel & Co., Plate 1560, 35 pages.
Period
Romantic
Catalogue
Dedication
Vladimir Stassov
Movements
16

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16 movements; Promenade [I]; 1. Gnomus; [Promenade II]. Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza; 2. Il Vecchio Castello; [Promenade III]. Moderato non tanto, pesamente; 3. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux); 4. Bydło; [Promenade IV]. Tranquillo; 5. Балет невылупившихся птенцов [Balet nevylupivshikhsya ptentsov] - Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks; 6. "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle"; Promenade [V]; 7. Limoges, le marché (La grande nouvelle); 8. Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum); Cum mortuis in lingua mortua; 9. Избушка на курьих ножках (Баба-Яга) [Izbushka na kuryikh nozhkakh (Baba-Yagá)] - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá); 10. Богатырские ворота (В стольном городе во Киеве) [Bogatyrskiye vorota (V stolnom gorode vo Kiyeve)] The Knight's Gate (in the Old Capital of Kiev) or The Great Gate of Kiev

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