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Pictures at an Exhibition<\/a>, one of Modest Mussorgsky’s <\/a>most famous work, is a set of ten pieces originally composed for the piano.
\nThe work is also well known in various arrangements with Ravel’s orchestration being the most recorded and performed.
\nSheet music of the piano version is now available in urtext edition in the Piano Street sheet music library.<\/p>\n

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Project for a city gate in Kiev by Hartmann, the picture which influenced piece no 10<\/p><\/div>
\nThe complete work:
\nPromenade
\nI: Gnomus
\nII: The old castle
\nIII: Tuileries (Dispute between children at play)
\nIV: Cattle (“Bydlo”)
\nV: Ballet of the unhatched chicks
\nVI: Samuel Goldemberg and Schmuyle
\nPromenade
\nVII: The market at Limoges (The great news)
\nVIII: The catacombs (Roman sepulcher)
\nIX: The hut on hen’s legs (Baba-Yaga)
\nX: The Bogatyr gate (in the Capital in Kiev)<\/p>\n

Here is Evgeny Kissin playing Promenade, Gnomus and The Old Castle:<\/p>\n

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Fashinatingly, it is also possible to play it on the guitar!
\nHere Kazuhito Yamashita play the seventh piece, Limoges:<\/p>\n

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