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TheStory

Behind

Pictures atan Exhibition

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Can you think of some ways composers get their ideas for a musical piece?




The ways composers get their ideas are numerous!

Sometimes composers write a song with a certain event in their mind (like a special party or a war their country won).




Some get their ideas from listening, watching and/or experiencing nature.

Others from a story, poem or memory.




But the songs from Modest Mussorgsky’s, Pictures at an Exhibition, were written for two reasons…

Modest Mussorgsky




Mussorgsky, a Russian composer, had a good friend named Viktor Hartmann.

Viktor was a painter and an architect. Viktor Hartmann




The two men strongly believed that Russian musicians, composers and artists were very talented.

Viktor Hartmann

Mussorgsky




They worked hard to try to get the rest of the world tonotice the talent of Russian artists (and musicians and composers).

Viktor Hartmann

Mussorgsky




Viktor died suddenly -when he was just thirty-nine years old.

Viktor Hartmann




Mussorgsky was deeply saddened by his friend’s sudden death.

Viktor Hartmann

Mussorgsky




Mussorgsky wanted to find a way to honor his friend and thought aboutwriting some music to do this.

Mussorgsky




Shortly after Hartmann’s death, another friend, Vladimir Stasov, came up with a great idea!

Vladimir Stasov




Stasov, who was an art critic, began to organize an exhibit of hundreds of Hartmann’s paintings and sketches.

Vladimir Stasov




An exhibit is a special

showing or displaying

of someone’s artwork. Mussorgsky




Several of the sketches and paintings in the exhibit were actually owned by Mussorgsky!




When Mussorgsky saw the exhibit of paintings he was even more inspired and wrote the music for Pictures at an Exhibition.

Mussorgsky




Mussorgsky used ideas from eleven of his friend’s pieces of art. Sadly only six of these paintings still exist today.




The first song from Pictures at an Exhibition is called, “Promenade.” A promenade is a walkway or path.




The song helps to

make you feel as if you are relaxing and walking

around the exhibit with Mussorgsky - looking at the paintings his friend created.




Do you think the tempo of this song would be fast or slow? Why?




“The Ballet of

Unhatched Chicks in

Their Shells”This is the sketch Hartmann

created for ballet costumes

in Trilby




This was a sketch that Hartmann

designed for a scene in a

ballet called Trilby.

This is the sketch Hartmann


in Trilby




As you listen to Mussorgsky's

musical version imagine that the

chick’s are pecking at their eggshells trying

to get out. This is the sketch Hartmann


in Trilby




Do you think the tempo of

the song will be fast or slow?

Why?

Will the “chicks” ever

get tired?This is the sketch Hartmann


in Trilby






in Trilby

Which style, legato or

staccato, best describes

chicks pecking at their

shells? Why?




“The Hut on Fowl’s

Legs”

This is the sketch of Baba-

Yaga’s hut on a hen‘s legs




Hartmann’s drawing of this ”hut” shows a clock standing

on the legs of a hen.



drawin”hut” shclock st

on the leg-

is a witch.






The “hut” is owned by

Baba-Yaga(the Polish name for“witch”).




As you listen to this music by

Mussorgsky can you imagine

hearing the bells of a large

clock? Do the bells move fast

or slow? This is the sketch of Baba-Yaga’s hut on a hen‘s legs




“The Great Gate of

Kiev”


created for a new city gate in

Kiev




This was Hartmann’s design for

gates to the city of Kiev. He designed this gate to honor Tsar

Alexander II. This is the sketch Hartmann created for a new city gate in

Kiev




He won a contest with

this design but unfortunately the project to build the gate was cancelled so it was never

built. This is the sketch Hartmann created for a new city gate in

Kiev




When you listen to this music does it

sound “royal?”

If so, what makes it sound

that way? This is the sketch Hartmann created for a new city gate in

Kiev




Is the tempo fast & quick or broad & slow?

Are the dynamics loud, soft/quiet or both loud and soft/quiet? This is the sketch Hartmann

created for a new city gate in

Kiev




Unfortunately many of

Hartmann's pictures that were in the exhibit have

been lost.

Viktor Hartmann




That makes it difficult to know

which sketches and paintings

Mussorgsky was thinking of when he

wrote the songs featured in Pictures

at an Exhibition...




Thanks to Mussorgsky and

Hartmann’s friend, Vladimir Stasov, we do

have a description of what some of

them looked like.Vladimir Stasov




“The Gnome”

The sketch called, Gnomus,

Tuileriesshowed a “little gnome, clumsily

running with crooked legs.”

~ Vladimir Stasov




Some say the sketch looked a

little like a nutcracker with

large teeth!

“The Gnome”




Now that you know how the

sketch was described, do you

think Mussorgsky's

music for this was fast or slow?

Why?

“The Gnome”




“Cattle”We don’t know the title of the

painting or sketch that

inspired Mussorgsky's song, “Bydlo."

or

“Bydlo”aka “The Ox Cart”




But Stasovdescribed the artwork as, “A Polish cart on

enormous wheels, drawn

by oxen."

~ Vladimir Stasov

“Cattle”or

“Bydlo”aka “The Ox Cart”




Now that you know how the

sketch was described, do

you think Mussorgsky's music for this

song was fast or slow? Why?




Do you think the song was loud or

soft/quiet? Why?




“The Old Castle”

We don’t know the title of the

painting or sketch that

inspired Mussorgsky's song, “The Old

Castle.”




But Stasovdescribed the artwork as “A

medieval castle before

which a troubadour

sings a song."

~ Vladimir Stasov




They lived

between the

years 400 to 1500.

A troubadour was a French singer who wandered around

and sang love poems.




Now that you know how the sketch was described, do you think Mussorgsky's music for this was fast or slow? Why?




Do you think it was loud or soft/quiet? Why?




While many of Hartmann’s sketches

and paintings have been lost at least we

still have the wonderful music

Mussorgsky wrote to help us “see” them

with our ears.




Have you thought about

the two reasons that inspired Mussorgsky

write his music called, Pictures

at an Exhibition?

Mussorgsky




He wrote the music to honor

his friend,

Viktor Hartmann.

Viktor Hartmann

In Memory

ofViktor

Hartmann




And he was inspired to write each song for this musical work based on sketches and paintings his friend created that

were featured in an exhibit after his friend

died suddenly.




It is now over 100 years since both men have died but thanks

to the composer, Modest Mussorgsky, we have these great

songs he wrote to honor a good friend of his and the artwork

his friend created!

Mussorgsky




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