Ballet of the cheeks on their shells. Ballet de los polluelos saliendo del cascarón

Mussorgsky was a russian composer of the 19th century. He had a friend that was a painter and died very young. A group of people decided to organize an exhibition of the pictures of that painter after his dead.

Mussorsgy as an homage to his friend, decided to “paint with music” some of the paintings of the exhibition of his dead friend, and he decided to describe with music the content of the paintings. All of the compositions that Mussorgsky created after that exhibition were collected in a musical work called “Pictures at an exhibition”. 

 One of the paintings represented some little chicks coming out from their egg. Mussorgsky decided to called that piece “Ballet of the chicks in their shells”. 

 We call this kind of music descriptive music.

Mussorgsky es un compositor ruso del siglo XIX. Tenía un amigo pintor que se murió muy joven y del cuál organizaron una exposición póstuma. Mussorgsky, en homenaje a su amigo fallecido quiso "dibujar con música" algunos de los cuadros de la exposición, describiendo con música lo que su amigo había pintado en los cuadros. Todos estos temas fueron recogidos en una obra llamada "Cuadros de una exposición". 
Uno de los cuadros representaba a unos polluelos saliendo de sus cáscaras. Para él, Mussorgksy compuso este "Ballet de polluelos en sus cáscaras". A este tipo de música la llamamos "descriptiva".

Hemos obtenido este musicograma en el blog Musicales al Poder.