Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition for Piano SoloIn memory of the deceased illustrator and architect Viktor A. Hartmann (18341873), an exhibition of his watercolours and drawings was organised in 1874. Modest Mussorgsky, who had been Hartmanns friend, was inspired by his visit to this exhibition to compose the cycle Pictures at an Exhibition for piano solo; a milestone of piano literature. He wrote it in June 1874 in St. Petersburg and subtitled it Memories of Viktor Hartmann. The picturesque and