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

Beim jungen Wein, Op. 53


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Beim jungen Wein, Op. 53
Foreign language / English title
Beim jungen Wein, Op. 53
Subtitle
For mixed Choir a capella after Georg Trakl
Year of composition
1987

Type
Choir a cappella
Instrumentation
mixed choir (S-A-T-B)
Duration
3 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
TRAKL, Georg
Language
German
Premiere information
17 July 1987, Stephaniensaal Graz, Austria; Choir of the "Steirischen Singwochen", Kurt Muthspiel (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edition of the Music Academy Graz - Chorübungen 1987

Helbling, HCCS5562
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Recordings
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation - Hörfunk
Remarks, other info
"Sun is setting scarlet,
Swallow´s left for distant lands.
Beneath the arch of evening,
New wine is passed around;
Snow is falling beyond the mountain"