ReOrchestration Examples

Fugue in G minor, BWV 578

by Johann Sebastian Bach (1703 – 1707)

Pictures at an Exhibition

by Modest Mussorgsky

PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION - ORIGINAL PIANO COMPOSITION (1874)

Mussorgsky: 'Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann’, for piano.

PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION - 1ST ORCHESTRATION (1891) BY MIKHAIL TUSHMALOV

PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION - ORCHESTRATION BY MAURICE RAVEL (1922)

For full orchestra.

PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION - FOR WIND ORCHESTRA (2011), ARR. BY PAUL LAVENDER

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Program Notes

IMSLP Score

Britannica

Night on Bald Mountain

Two Orchestrations

In the video below, the London Philharmonic Orchestra compares two versions of Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain: his original orchestration (1867) and the revision and re-orchestration by Rimsky-Korsakov (1886)