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In 2003 the charity, Paintings in Hospitals, invited 15 artists to produce work in in response to Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Written as a group of pieces for piano in 1874, the pictures that provided Mussorgsky’s original inspiration were mainly watercolours, painted by his friend Victor Hartman, who had died the previous year. For this interpretation Tom Phillips chose Mussorgsky’s fifth movement, Ballet of the Unhatched Chickens.
