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Title of the work

Chinese Songs, Op. 13

Composer
Horusitzky Zoltán
Original / Hungarian title
Kínai dalok, Op. 13
Foreign language / English title
Chinese Songs, Op. 13
Subtitle
For alto or baritone voice and piano
Year of composition
1941
Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
A. or Bar., pf.
Duration
11 min
Movements, parts
1. Völgyi lak / Cottage in the Vally (Lu Yun)
2. Kikelet / Spring (Tu Fu)
3. Tébolyult világ / Mad world (Tu Fu)
4. Vándorlegény / Wanderer (Tao Chin)
5. Közelítő tél / Impending winter (Meng Han-Jan)
6. Merengés / Réverie (Chang Kiu-Ling)
Text
LU YUN; TU FU; TAO CHIN; MENG, Han-Jan; CHANG, Kiu-Ling
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
15 March 1941, Hungarian Radio, Budapest; Mária Basilides (S.), Zoltán Horusitzky (pf.)
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest © 1959, Z. 2857
Recordings
Hungarian Radio, 1956
Hungaroton HCD-31670, 1997 - Margit László (S.), Zoltán Horusitzky (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Based on chinese poems

Hungarian translations by Dezső Kosztolányi