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

Infinitive


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Infinitívusz
Foreign language / English title
Infinitive
Subtitle
Eight movements to poems by János Pilinszky, Endre Ady, Ernő Szép, Dezső Tandori and Sándor Weöres - For mixed choir
Year of composition
1995

Type
Mixed choir
Instrumentation
mixed choir
Duration
21 min

Movements, parts
1. Mottó: Infinitívusz / Motto: Infinitive
2. Halál-tó fölött / Above the Death-Lake
3. De szégyen élni / What a Shame Is To Live
4. Orfeusz kertjének visszhangjai / The Echos of Orpheus´s Garden
5. Kétsoros / Two Lines
6. ´Minden eltünendők...´ / ´All Is Disappearing´
7. Hold és tanya / Moon and Farm
7. Négy téli évszak Paul Klee-nek / Four Winter Seasons to Paul Klee

Text
PILINSZKY, János; ADY, Endre; SZÉP, Ernő; TANDORI, Dezső; WEÖRES, Sándor
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
15 March 1996, Budapest; Zoltán Kodály Choir, Salamon Kamp (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
No. 2 "Answer to György Kurtág: Lagebericht, Anno 1996"; No.7 "In memoriam László Kalmár"