Mussorgsky’s composition ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’ was inspired by which painter’s works?
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 others in Russia's art world. The loss of the artist, aged only 39, plunged the composer into deep despair. Stasov helped to organize a memorial exhibition of over 400 Hartmann works in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in February and March 1874. Mussorgsky lent to the exhibition the two pictures Hartmann had given him, and viewed the show in person. Later in June, two thirds of the way through the composition of the cycle of subjectively pessimistic songs "Without Sun", Mussorgsky was inspired to compose "Pictures at an Exhibition", quickly completing the score in three weeks (2–22