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Herbert von Karajan conducts Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition : Berliner Philharmoniker / Ernst Wild, director, Herbert von Karajan, director.
- Format:
- Conference/Event
- Video
- Conference Name:
- Boss, Herbert von Karajan (1982-1988)
- Berliner Philharmoniker.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Internet videos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (35 min., 35 sec.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Telemondial, 1992.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- Experience Mussorgsky's celebrated Pictures at an Exhibition conducted by the exceptional Herbert von Karajan leading the Berliner Philharmoniker. This world-famous work was born of sad circumstances: in 1873, the composer's friend, the painter Victor Hartmann, died suddenly from an aneurysm at 39 years old. Shocked, Mussorgsky organized an exhibition of Hartmann's works at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. While the visitors viewed the artwork, the idea came to Mussorgsky to celebrate his friend in music: "sounds and ideas hung in the air, I am gulping and overeating, and can barely manage to scribble them on paper." Composed in just a few weeks, the piece (originally for piano) would be arranged and transcribed many times before Maurice Ravel's 1922 orchestration, which is today the most popular
- Contents:
- Pictures at an Exhibition / Modest Mussorgsky.
- Participant:
- Berliner Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan.
- Notes:
- Recorded 1986 Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany.
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Container of: Mussorgsky, Modest. Pictures at an Exhibition.
- OCLC:
- 1190903401
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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