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Title of the work

Die Glocken des Strassburger Münsters (S.6) / The Bells of Strasbourg Cathedral (S.6)

Composer
Liszt Ferenc
Original / Hungarian title
Die Glocken des Strassburger Münsters (S.6) / A strassburgi katedrális harangjai (S.6)
Foreign language / English title
Die Glocken des Strassburger Münsters (S.6) / The Bells of Strasbourg Cathedral (S.6)
Dedication
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Year of composition
1874
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
Bar., Ms. solo - mixed choir (S-S-A-T-T-B) - 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 2 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - 2 arpa, org. - 2 timp, perc. (ptti., camp. or tam-tam) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
13 min
Movements, parts
1. Preludio - Excelsior
2. Die Glocken / The Bells / A harangok
Text
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
Language
English / German
Premiere information
10 March 1875, Concert for Bayreuth, Vígadó, Budapest; Budapest Liszt Society, Philharmonic Orchestra, János Richter (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Edition Julius-Schubert & Co., Leipzig © 1875
Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD 31960, 2001 - Sándor Sólyom-Nagy (Bar.), Sándor Margittay (org.), Hungarian Radio and Televison Choir, Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Sapszon (choir master), János Ferencsik (cond.)
"Liszt: Male Choruses II" BMC CD 178, 2010 - László Fassang (org.), Saint Ephraim Male Choir, Tamás Bubnó (dir.) (Preludio - Excelsior only)
Remarks, other info
Composed on the Poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

German translation by Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein
Hungarian translation by Kornél Ábrányi