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.

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Title of the work

Eight Choruses to Poems by Dezső Tandori, Op. 23

Composer

Kurtág György

Original / Hungarian title

Nyolc kórus Tandori Dezső verseire, Op. 23

Foreign language / English title

Eight Choruses to Poems by Dezső Tandori, Op. 23

Subtitle

For mixed choir

Dedication

I. to Ilona Ferenczi, II. to László Dörnyei, III. to András Wilheim

Year of composition

1982

Type

Mixed choir

Instrumentation

mixed choir

Duration

10 min

Movements, parts

I. Három koan / Three Koans
1. Koan III
2. Koan I
3. Koan II

II. Már csak azt a jövő időt kívánom / Longing for the future
4. Koan bel canto
5. T. S. Eliot-érme / T. S. Elliot-coin

III. Három önarckép / Three Self-Portraits
6. Már mocsarasodom / I am turning into a swamp
7. H. királyfi, mostohaapja előt / Prince H. standing before his stepfather
8. Önarckép 1965 / Self-portrait from 1965

Text

TANDORI, Dezső

Language

Hungarian

Premiere information

1 June 1984, The Bath Festival, Bath, Somerset, England; BBC Singers, John Poole (cond.)

Publisher / Source

Editio Musica Budapest, Z. 12947 (in preparation)

1 min. sample

1 1. Koan III