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

Sounds and Colours, Op. 95


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Klänge und Farben, Op. 95
Foreign language / English title
Sounds and Colours, Op. 95
Year of composition
1974

Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
pf.
Duration
20 min

Movements, parts
1. Klangstudie / Study in Sounds
2. Weite Landschaft / Wide Landscape
3. In großer Eile / In a Great Hurry
4. Studie in Sekunden und Quarten / Study in Seconds and Fourth
5. An Béla Bartók / To Béla Bartók
6. Ekloge / Eclogue
7. Im Uhrladen / In the Clock Shop
8. Klänge und Farben / Sounds and Colours
9. Ziehharmonika / Sounding the Accordion
10. Chinesische Jongleure [Chinese Juggler
11. Echo
12. Toccatina
13. Pien Tshung - Chinesisches Glockenspiel / Chinese Chimes
14. Nachtklänge / Sounds of the Night
15. Valse-Impromptu (Hommage a F. Liszt)

Premiere information
1974, Eisenstadt, Austria
Publisher / Source
Doblinger - Musikhaus und Verlag, D. 01 370
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Recordings
LP Amadeo 423 520-1 (I - XI - XII - XIII - XV)
CD Amadeo 445 240-2 (I - XI - XII - XIII - XV)
CD Pepperland Music Production PEP 97202
Remarks, other info
Fifteen piano pieces

Composed: 1973 - 1974