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Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia (S.109) / Symphony to Dante´s Divine Comedy (S.109)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia (S.109) / Dante szimfónia (Dante Isteni színjátéka nyomán) (S.109)
Foreign language / English title
Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia (S.109) / Symphony to Dante´s Divine Comedy (S.109)
Subtitle
Für Großes Orchester und Frauenchor / For Symphony Orchestra and Female Choir
Dedication
To Richard Wagner
Year of composition
1856
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
S. solo - female choir (or boy choir) - 3 fl. (III anche picc.), 2 ob., c.ing., 2 cl., cl.b., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 2 tr., 2 trb., tr.b., tuba - 2 arpa, arm. - 4 timp., perc. (ptti., gr.c., tam-tam) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
48 min
Movements, parts
1. Inferno / Pokol
2. Purgatorio - Magnificat / Purgatórium - Magnificat
Text
DANTE, Alighieri
Language
Latin
Premiere information
7 November 1857, Königliche Hoftheater (Semperoper), Dresden, Germany; Ferenc Liszt (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1859
Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD 11918, 1996 - Veronika Kincses (S.), Hungarian Radio and Television Female Choir, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, György Lehel (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1855 - 1856
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
Ferenc Liszt: Complete Organ Works Hungaroton