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

The Night - Cantata


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Az éj - Kantáta
Foreign language / English title
The Night - Cantata
Year of composition
1975

Type
Choir and orchestra
Instrumentation
2 mixed choir (S-A-T-B) - 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. (2 esec. - tmb.picc.c.c., gr.c., tmb.mlt., ptto.sosp., ptti., tam-tam) - strings: 10 vl. 1, 8 vl. 2, 6 vla., 6 vlc., 4 cb.
Movements, parts
One movement

Text
PETŐFI, Sándor
Language
Hungarian
Publisher / Source
EMB © 1981, Z. 10 243
Available here!
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1974 - 1975

On the Poem of Sándor Petőfi

Composed as Movement III of "Cantata of Veszprém" but also as a work on its own