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

Quattro danze Transilvane / Four Transylvanian Dances


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Quattro danze Transilvane / Négy erdélyi tánc
Foreign language / English title
Quattro danze Transilvane / Four Transylvanian Dances
Subtitle
Per orchestra d´archi / For string Orchestra
Year of composition
1944

Type
String orchestra
Instrumentation
strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
12 min

Movements, parts
1. Lassú
2. Ugrós
3. Lejtős
4. Dobbantós

Premiere information
27 January 1950, Basel, Switzerland; Basel Chamber Orchestra, Paul Sacher (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni - Milano, 4633 (large or medium score on sale); 4633 (on hire)
Available here!
Recordings
ECM CD 465 778-2, 2001 - Camerata Bern, Thomas Zehetmair (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Revised: 1949

 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Végh in his Mother Tongue BMC Records