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

Hundred Year´s Average


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Százéves átlag
Foreign language / English title
Hundred Year´s Average
Subtitle
For string quintet and 2 sine-wave oscillators, or one string player, 2 sine-wave oscillators and a ring-modulator
Year of composition
1977

Type
Live electronic music
Number of players
5
Instrumentation
strings: 2 vl., 2 vla., vlc. - 2 sine-wave generator (or a stringplayer), 2 sine wave generator, ring-modulator
Duration
18 min

Premiere information
23 October 1977, Budapest; New Music Studio Budapest, Zoltán Jeney (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Hungaroton SLPX-12059, 1979 - Sándor Szalay (computer programming), György Erki (electronics), Zoltán Jeney (instr., acoustics), Sándor Papp (vla.)
1 min. sample
1 A Hundred Years' Average