Pictures at an Exhibition
composer: Modeste Moussorgsky
arranger: Jean Guillou
Transcription
Instrumentation: organ
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 35' 0''
Year of composition: 1988
Difficulty: difficult to very difficult
56 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-13783-6
ISBN: 978-3-7957-9778-2
Order number: ED 9807
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"A transcription justifies itself only by forgetting that it is a transcription and by incorporating the 'new' instrument into the work, as it were," Jean Guillou writes in the preface to this edition.
Especially transcribing a work for organ which was originally written for piano possesses a certain risk. Such a transcription should not sound like a piano score played on the organ. Rather, the specific possibilities offered by the organ have to be considered. That is why typically pianistic passages have to be rewritten to get an "organistic" character. Jean Guillou has masterfully succeeded in turning this great piano and orchestral work into a work for organ.
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