Re: Re: Re: Re: TWO-TUBA orchestral works


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Posted by Richard on October 27, 2000 at 22:50:14:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: TWO-TUBA orchestral works posted by Steve C on October 27, 2000 at 12:53:19:

We should realize that Ravel based his version, not on Mussorgsky's original, but on an "improved" one by Rimsky-Korsakov. Mussorgsky was considered by his peers to be an uncouth raw talent in need of cleaning up, which is why a lot of his works were first learned in sanitized versions. Rimsky's Night on bald Mountain (the one we all know) is a different piece from Mussorgsky's, only the themes and the barest outlines are similar.
Ravel's Pictures is a true product of its time and place, commissioned in the 1920s by the Russian expatriate Koussevitsky, smack in a milieu of Russian expatriates all fomenting the so called Franco-Russian school. That's what Petrouchka and Rite of Spring are too, Russian blood and guts meets French brilliance.



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