Can music tell a story better than words? Mussorgsky’s famous Pictures at an Exhibition (originally written for piano and orchestrated by Ravel) describes an imaginary tour through an art exhibit by Mussorgsky’s good friend and artist, Viktor Hartmann. Listen to the excerpt above and decide which art matches the music.
Catacombs (Hartmann, the artist, drew himself and two others in the Paris tombs)
The Great Gate of Kiev (a project for a city gate that was never built)
The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (a sketch of costumes for a ballet)