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Mysteries of the Macabre - für Solo-Trompete in C und Orchester

Composer
Ligeti György
Original / Hungarian title
Mysteries of the Macabre - für Solo-Trompete in C und Orchester
Foreign language / English title
Mysteries of the Macabre - für Solo-Trompete in C und Orchester
Subtitle
Drei Arien aus der Oper "Le Grand Macabre"
Dedication
Elgar Howarth und Håkan Hardenberger gewidmet
Year of composition
1977
Type
Concerto
Instrumentation
tr. in do solo - picc., fl., 3 ob. (III anche c.ing.), 2 cl. (II anche cl.b.), 2 fg. (II anche cfg.) - 4 cor., 2 tr., trb.cb., tuba cb. - perc. (2 esec. - trg., crot., 2 ptti. a 2, ptto.sosp., tam-tam, tom-tom, conga, tamb., tmb.mlt., tmb.picc., gr.c., maracas, 4 bongo, cas., raganella, guiro, wood bl., temple bl., police whistle, signal whistle, slide whistle, campli., xil., sandpaper, large sheet of paper) - cel. (anche cemb.), pf. (anche el. org.) - arpa, mand. - strings: 3 vl., 2 vla., 6 vlc., 4 cb.
Duration
9 min
Premiere information
20 January 1994, Radio France Festival Présences, Paris; Philippe Lisler (tr.), Orchestre National de France, Oswald Sallaberger (cond.),
Publisher / Source
Schott Music, ED 8205 (study score), performance material on hire
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1 min. sample
1 Mysteries of the Macabre
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1974 - 1977, revised: 1992

"I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1977. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the "Secret Political Police" which have been arranged (beautifully!) for chamber ensemble by Elgar Howarth. My friend Howarth had conducted the world premiere of the opera in Stockholm in 1978 and some of the further productions. The half-nonsense text is an immediate – however more accurate – continuation of the idea of my works Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, but there is no chromatics in the music any more."