The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works
Season 1
Ep 15. Mussorgsky?Pictures at an Exhibition
- TV-PG
- September 27, 2013
- 50 min
In 19th-century Russia, Mussorgsky and his contemporaries rejected the influence of German composers in seeking to create a music that would be purely Russian. In the kaleidoscopic movements of Pictures at an Exhibition, each based on a visual artwork, experience the power and directness of Mussorgsky's non-Western European musical language, from his incarnation of fantastic creatures and comic flights of fancy to the monumental tone painting of The Great Gate of Kiev.