The Analysis and Performance Practice of Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Petrovich Musorgsky

• Main Authors: Ping Chun, Ko, 葛品君
• Other Authors: 張欽全
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77149520780451180466

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 音樂學系碩士班 === 98 === In mid-nineteen century, “Musical Nationalism” spread from Russian to the whole Europe with the trend of Nationalism. Musicians used composing techniques of Romanticism but with regional Musical Characteristics. Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-1881), the most talented composer within “the Mighty Handful”, composed “Pictures at an Exhibition” in 1874, and the piece became the representative Russian piano work of this period. After Maurice Ravel’s (1875-1937) arranging it into orchestra version, the value of this piece was seen by more people, and it becomes a standard piece in concerts. Through ten short titled pieces, Musorgsky depict the paintings of his passing friend, Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (1834-1873), and besides connecting the music and painting closely, he also animated the work with his own imagination to give the stories to the pictures. The piece is lead by a preclusive “Promenade”, and the “Promenade” theme ran through the whole work. This thesis is going to discuss the background information of Musorgsky and Hartmann’ s time and their composing or painting characteristics, as well as to find out the connection between their music and pictures. To help the performer to get the structure of the whole piece, this thesis will also analyze the link between different short pieces, and how Musorgsky set and varied the “Promenade” theme in the whole work. Since this piece is to depict the pictures instead of being a showpiece, the thesis did not choose the new arranged versions but took Musorgsky’s manuscript and Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov’s (1844-1908) editing version as main materials to analyze, and referred to Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915-1997), Ivo Pogorelich (b. 1958), and Evgeny Igorevich Kissin’s (b.1971) performing to see how to follow composer’s directions on the score, as well as and how to interpret the master work. Keywords: Musorgsky, Hartmann, Pictures at an exhibition, Musical Nationalism