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

Dedication

I. Ilona Ferenczi, II. László Dörnyei, III. 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 / I Am Only Longing for That Future
4. Koan bel canto
5. T. S. Eliot-érme / T. S. Elliot-medallion

III. Három önarckép / Three Self Portraits
6. Már mocsarasodom / I Am Already Becoming Marsh-like
7. H. királyfi, mostohaapja előt / Prince H. in front of his Stepfather
8. Önarckép 1965 / Self Portrait 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)

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1 1. Koan III