Musorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" performed by Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra

On April 6, 2026, at the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev performed Modest Musorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. The cycle was originally written for piano. Musorgsky wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition" in 1874 in memory of his friend, the artist and architect Victor Hartmann. During the composer's lifetime, "Pictures at an Exhibition" was neither published nor performed, and was only published five years after Musorgsky's death (in Rimsky-Korsakov's version). "Pictures at an Exhibition" achieved worldwide recognition only after Maurice Ravel created his famous orchestration.