Modest Mussorgsky
1839–1881 · 19th century · 1 melody
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) was a composer born near Pskov, best known for Pictures at an Exhibition. Melody you can play here: Promenade (Pictures at an Exhibition).
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) is a piano suite inspired by paintings by his friend Viktor Hartmann; the Promenade theme walks the listener from picture to picture. He also wrote the opera Boris Godunov and Night on Bald Mountain.