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

Kalevala


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Kalevala
Foreign language / English title
Kalevala
Subtitle
Incidental music to the radio drama
Dedication
"Hidas karnagyúr részére" (To Maestro Hidas)
Year of composition
1968

Type
Incidental music
Instrumentation
ob., c.ing., cl., fg. - 3 cor., tr. - timp., perc. (tmb.picc., trg.) - strings: 6 vl. 1, 6 vl. 2, 4 vla., 4 vlc., 4 cb.
Movements, parts
I - II - III - IV

Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
Music to a radio drama written - after the original epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore - and directed by László Bozó

Translation by Béla Vikár