Pictures at an Exhibition
This is an arrangement for brass quintet of the complete suite by Modest Mussorgsky. As with all other arrangements I am able to transpose parts to suit each particular quintet although I should stress that some of the movements will work best with a standard line up. The score is over a hundred pages long and each part is about 15. I am therefore pricing this chart at a very reasonable £10.00
Mussorgsky received the inspiration for his composition "Pictures at an Exhibition" from an exhibition of water colours and drawings by Hartmann. It is a series of ten pieces each bearing the name of a picture, the impression of which the composer has tried to translate into music.
The Prelude and Interludes, entitled "Promenade", consist of one theme with variations of which the composer conveys the idea of strolling amongst the pieces in the exhibition.
Click on each movement title to see a brief example in Sibelius Scorch format.
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The drawing represents a dwarf who totters with faltering steps on his crooked legs. |
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A castle of the Middle Ages in front of which a minstrel sings. |
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A crowd of nurses and children playing in an alley of the Tuileries Garden in Paris. |
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A Polish wagon with lumbering wheels drawn by oxen. |
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A picturesque scene in the ballet "Trilby". |
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Two Polish Jews; one rich, the other poor. |
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French market women quarrelling. |
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A portrait of Hartmann examining the interior of the Catacombes of Paris by lantern. |
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A clock in the form of a hut standing on hens' claws, belonging to Baba Yaga. |
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An entrance gate for the town of Kiev in the massive style of ancient Russia. |
