Klarinet Archive - Posting 000191.txt from 2008/03

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] ravel v. mussorgsky
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:30:53 -0400

colin.touchin@-----.com wrote:
> Frederik Prausnitz in his comprehensive conducting manual Score and
> Podium has a fascinating section on the Ravel orchestration of Pictures
> where he leads from the surprising observation that Ravel missed out the
> 5th Promenade

Does he touch on the Rimsky-Korsakov influence here? Ravel's
orchestration is based on Rimsky-Korsakov's piano edition, which
significantly modifies Mussorgsky's original.

It may not have been Ravel who tampered in this respect.

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