Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)

                Picture at an Exhibition is a piano suite of program music in ten movements, plus a recurring 

        and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.  It is a 
        musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put 
        on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous 
        year. Each movement of the suite is based on an individual work, some of which are lost.

                The composition has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists, and became widely known 
        from orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and contemporary musicians,

        with Maurice Ravel's 1922 adaptation for orchestra being the most recorded and performed.


Pictures at an Exhibition 5th Promenade rhythms: 

                   11 + 11 + 11 + 11 ||

                     6 +  6 + 11  ||  11 + 6 

                   11 + 6 + 6

                     7 + 7 + 3 ||  11 + 13

The table below shows the order of movements.

No.	Title in score	English translation	Key	Meter	Tempo
	Promenade		B♭ major	5 4, 6 4	Allegro giusto, nel modo russico; senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto
1	Gnomus (Latin)	The Gnome	E♭ minor	3 4	Vivo and Meno mosso, pesante
	Promenade		A♭ major	5 4, 6 4	Moderato commodo assai e con delicatezza
2	Il vecchio castello (Italian)	The Old Castle	G♯ minor	6 8	Andante molto cantabile e con dolore
	Promenade		B major	5 4, 6 4	Moderato non tanto, pesamente
3	Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) (French)	Tuileries (Children's Quarrel after Games)	B major		Allegretto non troppo, capriccioso
4	Bydło (Polish)	Cattle	G♯ minor	2 4	Sempre moderato, pesante
	Promenade		D minor	5 4, 6 4, 7 4	Tranquillo
5	Балет невылупившихся птенцов (Russian) Balet nevylupivshikhsya ptentsov (trans.)	Ballet of Unhatched Chicks	F major	2 4	Scherzino
6	"Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" (Yiddish)	"Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmuÿle"	B♭ minor		Andante. Grave energico and Andantino
	Promenade		B♭ major	5 4, 6 4, 7 4	Allegro giusto, nel modo russico; poco sostenuto
7	Limoges. Le marché (La grande nouvelle) (French)	Limoges. The Market (The Great News)	E♭ major		Allegretto vivo, sempre scherzando
8	Catacombae (Sepulcrum romanum) (Latin)	Catacombs (Roman Tomb)	B minor	3 4	Largo
	Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (Latin)	With the Dead in a Dead Language	B minor	6 4	Andante non troppo con lamento
9	Избушка на курьих ножках (Баба-Яга) (Russian) Izbushka na kuryikh nozhkakh (Baba-Yaga) (trans.)	The Hut on Hen's Legs (Baba Yaga)	C minor	2 4	Allegro con brio, feroce and Andante mosso
10	Богатырские ворота (В стольном городе во Киеве) (Russian) Bogatyrskiye vorota (V stolnom gorode vo Kiyeve) (trans.)	The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev) (Often translated as "The Great Gate of Kiev" or "The Heroes' Gate at Kiev")	E♭ major		Allegro alla breve. Maestoso, con grandezza

The surviving works that can be shown with certainty to have been used by Mussorgsky in assembling his suite, along with their titles, are as follows:

Movement	Title	Title (English)	Picture
5. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks	Эскизы театральных костюмов к балету "Трильби"	Sketches of theatre costumes for the ballet Trilby
6. "Samuel" Goldenberg and "Schmuÿle"	Еврей в меховой шапке. Сандомир	Jew in a fur cap. Sandomierz
	Сандомирский [еврей]	Sandomierz [Jew]
8. Catacombs (Roman Tomb)	Парижские катакомбы (с фигурами В. А. Гартмана, В. А. Кенеля и проводника, держащего фонарь)	Paris Catacombs (with the figures of V. A. Hartmann, V. A. Kenel, and a guide holding a lantern)
9. The Hut on Hen's Legs ([The Hut] of Baba Yaga)	Избушка Бабы-Яги на курьих ножках. Часы в русском стиле	The hut of Baba-Yaga on hen's legs. Clock in the Russian style
10. The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev)	Проект городских ворот в Киеве. Главный фасад	Project for city gates in Kiev. Main façade