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

Abstract Composition Built from Conventional Elements


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Hagyományos elemekből épített absztrakt kompozíció
Foreign language / English title
Abstract Composition Built from Conventional Elements
Year of composition
1993

Type
Ensemble
Number of players
18
Instrumentation
3 fl. (III anche picc.), 2 cl. (II cl.b.), fg. - pf., timp., perc. (2 esec.) - 3 vl., 2 vla., 2 vlc., cb.
Duration
33 min

Premiere information
17 November 1995, Budapest, Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Great Hall, Szombathely Orchestra, Géza Gémesi (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
Work unfinished (on purpose). Part of the series: Musical Investigations / Zenei vizsgálódások. A series examining the language-like characteristics of music. References: Gábor Bódy´s series on film language (based on: János Zsilka´s lectures on linguistics; Ferdinand de Saussure: Introduction to General Linguistics; works of Miklós Erdély; Wittgenstein: Philosophische Untersuchungen)