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Title	Promenade aus 'Bilder einer Ausstellung'
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music, arrangement
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Publisher's article no.	20021016
Price	36.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Mussorgsky, Modest
Arranger	Hafner, Gerhard
Difficulty level	2
Duration	0:02:50
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Programme notes: In his suite Mussorgsky musically arranges ten pictures of Hartmann, structured by the "Promenade" which returns four times and shows the viewer walking through the exhibition. The "Promenade" is also at the beginning of "Pictures at an Exhibition" and has a different character with every repetition, which can be explained by the viewer's changing mood due to their reflection on a work just seen. Maurice Ravel's interest in the "pictures of an exhibition" was not only that of an ingenious instrumentator's coincidental interest in any piano work that seemed to cry out for orchestral colors. During Ravel's lifetime, Mussorgski's music had more and more proved to be a welcome signpost from the general "Wagnérisme" to which the French musical world had succumbed like a fever. "I will never forget the day so long ago when you and your husband revealed Mussorgski's work to us," Ravel wrote to the Russian singer Marie Olénine, who lives in Paris, in April 1922. From 1896, together with her husband, the Mussorgski biographer Pierre d'Alheim, and the pianist Charles Foerster, Marie Olénine had introduced the French to the Russian oeuvre in "Concert Lectures"; the young Ravel was among the most impressed composers present. A few days after the above-mentioned reminiscence, Ravel began his orchestration of the cycle, in which, by the way, he marked a return of the promenade (between the 6th and 7th picture), but otherwise only minimally interfered with the original. The commissioner was the conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who also conducted the brilliant premiere of this second birth of the "Pictures at an Exhibition" at the Paris Opéra on 19 October 1922. Quelle/Source: Auszug aus NÖ Tonkünstler Betriebgesellschaft m.b.H. | Walter Weidringer

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