Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - The Old Castle

[@ПавелСтаниславский-з6о]

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[@grahamtwist]

This is an inspired organ transcription of Mussorgsky's masterpiece and played with consummate artistry by you, Kirill, with fabulous registration choices on this magnificent organ: bravo! Mussorgsky composed Pictures as a memorial to his friend, the artist Viktor Hartmann, who had died in 1873 aged just 39. Shortly after the artist’s death, Mussorgsky visited a retrospective exhibit of Hartmann’s sketches, stage designs, and architectural studies and felt the need to capture the experience in music. By early summer 1874, he had completed the work, a lengthy and fiendishly difficult suite for solo piano. At the time of Mussorgsky’s death in 1881 (from alcoholism), the piece had been neither performed nor published. It fell to his friend and colleague, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, to 'tidy up' the manuscript and bring it to print in 1886. The suite consists of musical depictions of 10 paintings by Hartmann, interspersed with that marvellous recurring “Promenade” theme that represents a visitor - in this case, the composer himself - strolling through the exhibition. The powerful nature of the intermezzi, Mussorgsky acknowledged in one of his letters, reflected his own large physique! This movement, "The Old Castle", is a solemn and lyrical portrayal of a medieval troubadour singing on the grounds of a grand castle.

[@jankowskynexus]

Actually, we may suppose , that he had no time to write it for orchestra( this is not a piano solo work by idea) Ravel - made this work after him in the best possible way