It is more than apocrypha to say that Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are an attempt to capture the visual artwork of the "Exhibition", artwork of his recently deceased friend Viktor Hartmann.

A tribute in music to his many friends killed in WW I (Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin") and to a singular 'death of an artist', (Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition") on tonight's "Evening Concert".

Beethoven's "Archduke" Piano Trio was the last work that he played in public. His advancing deafness made it difficult for him to hear what he was playing.

Aging quite nicely (over 100 years now!) the famous "The Rite of Springs" still provokes.

History is full of examples of "What if?"s. What if Mussorgsky's artist friend Viktor Hartmann had lived longer? Would we have "Pictures at an Exhibition"?