Richter destroys the piano – The Hut on Fowl's Legs // MUSSORGSKY

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Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for the piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's arrangement being by far the most recorded and performed.

Mussorgsky based his musical material on drawings and watercolours by Hartmann produced mostly during the artist's travels abroad. Locales include Italy, France, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Today most of the pictures from the Hartmann exhibition are lost, making it impossible to be sure in many cases which Hartmann works Mussorgsky had in mind.

A short essay on the piece by Christine Stevenson: https://notesfromapianist.wordpress.com/2016/11/06/the-hut-on-fowls-legs-baba-yaga-the-russian-witch/

Видео Richter destroys the piano – The Hut on Fowl's Legs // MUSSORGSKY канала PianoCzarX