Modest Mussorgski: Advanced Sheet Music

Although Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an Exhibition is often enjoyed in its original solo piano version, it is perhaps best known through its famous orchestration by Maurice Ravel, who masterfu...

Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky wurde im Jahre 1839 im Gouvernement Pleskau geboren. Sein Berufsziel war eigentlich die Offizierslaufbahn gewesen und er trat deshalb auch in ein Garderegiment ein. Aller...

Based on the autograph manuscript and earliest editions, editor Nancy Bricard addresses the sources and discrepancies between the various publications of Moussorgsky's most important contribution to p...

Auslöser für den 1874 komponierten Klavierzyklus 'Bilder einer Ausstellung' war die im gleichen Jahr veranstaltete Gedächtnisausstellung für den 1873 verstorbenen und mit dem Komponisten befreundeten...

The trigger for the piano cycle "Pictures at an Exhibition", composed in 1874, was the memorial exhibition organized in the same year for the painter and architect Viktor Hartmann, who died in 1873 an...

Ein wuchtiges altes Stadttor, wiedergegeben durch einen kraftvollen Hymnus mit Glockenschlägen - wer kennt Das große Tor von Kiew aus Mussorgskys Werk Bilder einer Ausstellung nicht? Der französische...

Nine works including 'Footsteps in the snow' and 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair' from the Debussy Preludes book 1.

Nine works including 'Footsteps in the snow' and 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair' from the Debussy Preludes book 1.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)

A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were, Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.E...

This collection contains works, selected and arranged by Franco Cesarini, that explore the wide spectrum of Russian romantic music. On one side are the followers of Russian nationalism, including comp...

Flute (+Piccolo), Oboe (+English horn), Bb Clarinet (+A Clarinet), Bassoon, Horn, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, Harp, 1 Percussion

Moussorgsky was on a recital tour of southern Russia when he was inspired to write the Song of the Flea. It became popular immediately with audiences and remains so today. The correct title is The Son...

Mussorgsky never heard this piece performed in his lifetime, certainly not in this version, the most famous which was compiled by Rimsky-Korsakov from all the various versions Mussorgsky composed. The...

Mussorgsky never heard this piece performed in his lifetime, certainly not in this version, the most famous which was compiled by Rimsky-Korsakov from all the various versions Mussorgsky composed. The...

The Night on the Bare Mountain is one of Mussorgsky's best-known work. The literary model is the play The Witch (by Georgi Mengden). (Concert Band)

The Night on the Bare Mountain is one of Mussorgsky's best-known work. The literary model is the play The Witch (by Georgi Mengden). (Concert Band)

The Night on the Bare Mountain is one of Mussorgsky's best-known work. The literary model is the play The Witch (by Georgi Mengden). (Concert Band)

The Night on the Bare Mountain is one of Mussorgsky's best-known work. The literary model is the play The Witch (by Georgi Mengden). (Concert Band)

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed the Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874 as a suite of ten piano pieces.The suite is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, and...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed the Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874 as a suite of ten piano pieces.The suite is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, and...