mussorgsky, modest petrovich

Suggests how the death of a friend, Victor Hartmann, inspired the music of Modest Mussorgsky in St. Petersburg in the 1870s.

A children's story based on real events that shows how the death of one friend and the encouragement of another led to nineteenth-century composer Modest Mussorgsky's creation of the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition." Includes piano and orchestral versions of the piece on audio CD.