Composition database

This is the Composition Database of BMC, which includes information about works by composers that are either Hungarian or Hungarian by origin or live in Hungary.

Title of the work

Wie leicht wird Erde Sein


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Wie leicht wird Erde Sein
Foreign language / English title
Wie leicht wird Erde Sein
Subtitle
To a poem by Nelly Sachs - For mixed choir
Dedication
to Albert Simon for his 60th birthday
Year of composition
1981

Type
Mixed choir
Instrumentation
mixed choir
Duration
4 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
SACHS, Nelly
Language
German
Premiere information
11 December 1987, Budapest; Tomkins Vocal Ensemble, János Dobra (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
Revised in 1986

See also version for mixed choir and chamber ensemble: Wie leicht wird Erde sein