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

Four Choruses, Op. 80


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Vier Chöre, Op. 80
Foreign language / English title
Four Choruses, Op. 80
Year of composition
1965

Type
Choral music
Instrumentation
mixed choir (S-A-T-B), fl. (ad lib.), three-part female choir
Movements, parts
1. Pan is Piping (Platon)
2./1. Hymnus (A. Prudentius)
2./2. Before Sleep (A. Prudentius)
3. Three Japanese Tanka (Yosano Akiko)
4. Rain in Spring (Mary Lapsley)

Text
PLATON - PRUDENTIUS, Aurelinus - YOSANO, Akiko - LAPSLEY, Mary
Language
English
Publisher / Source
MS (I, IV)
Tonger, Cologne (II/1, II/2)
Franco Colombo, Belwin Mills, USA (III)
Remarks, other info
Movement I for four-part mixed choir and flute ad lib.
Movements II/1, II/2 and IV for four-part mixed choir
Movement III for three-part female choir