Mikhail Tushmalov [SEP] date of death
Mikhail Tushmalov
Mikhail Tushmalov "(Tushmalishvili, Georgian:თუშმალიშვილი)" (1861 - 1896) was a Russian Georgian opera conductor who held posts in Warsaw and Tiflis (Tbilisi). He died in what is now the nation of Georgia.
Tushmalov is most widely discussed today as the first person to have prepared an orchestral version of Modest Mussorgsky's 1874 piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition". Tushmalov's version sets an abridged version of the piece. It may have been completed as early as 1886, when Tushmalov was
from the manuscripts in the accompanying CD booklet.
Arrangements and interpretations.
The first musician to arrange Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for orchestra was the Russian composer and conductor Mikhail Tushmalov. However, his version (first performed in 1891 and possibly produced as early as 1886 when he was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov) does not include the entire suite: Only seven of the ten "pictures" are present, leaving out "Gnomus", "Tuileries", and "Cattle", and all