Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for piano. Who produced the most popular orchestral version in 1922?
Pictures at an Exhibition Pictures at an Exhibition Pictures at an Exhibition (, "Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane", "Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann"; ) is a suite of ten pieces (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for 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. It was probably in 1868 that Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (Stokowski orchestration) International); Kazuki Yamada and the Japan Philharmonic (Exton). Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops recorded just 'The Great Gate' on its own, complete with the 'optional' organ part at the end, for Telarc. Pictures at an Exhibition (Stokowski orchestration) Leopold Stokowski's orchestration of "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky was completed in 1939 and premiered later that year, on 17 November, by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mussorgsky's original 1874 composition was a suite for piano, however, the piece has gained most of its fame through the many orchestrations of it that have been produced. The most popular of these arrangements