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McOpera brass with Nigel Bodice play Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition
Mussorgsky composed Pictures as a memorial to his friend, the Russian artist Viktor Hartmann, who had died in 1873 at age 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.
- Venue
- St Machar's Cathedral
- Contact
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Tickets cost £10 full, £5 Concession, Free to students and under 16s.
To be added to the door list, contact
Euan Crabb
Administrator of Music
01224 272570
email: escrabb@abdn.ac.uk