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

Eight Songs to Poems by R. M. Rilke


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Nyolc dal R. M. Rilke verseire
Foreign language / English title
Eight Songs to Poems by R. M. Rilke
Year of composition
1997

Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
S., pf.
Movements, parts
1. Pietà
2. Widmung / Dedication
3. Weist du / Do you know
4. Spiegelbild / Reflection
5. Fortschritt / Progress
6. Heb mich / Lift me
7. Eine Furche / A furrow
8. Archaischer Torso Apollos / Archaic Torso of Apollo

Text
RILKE, Rainer Maria
Language
German
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
CD of the Academic Inaugural Concert of József Soproni - Edited by the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts
Remarks, other info
"Pietà" dedicated to Andrea Meláth and Katalin Alter