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 Siege of Sziget


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Szigeti veszedelem
Foreign language / English title
The Siege of Sziget
Subtitle
Accompanying Music
Year of composition
1966

Type
Music for radio drama
Instrumentation
3 fl. (III anche picc.), 3 cl. (III anche cl.b.) - 3 cor., 2 tr., 3 trb. - timp., perc. (tmb.picc., ptti., gr.c., tam-tam, trg.) - 4 vla., 4 vlc., 2 cb.
Movements, parts
I - II - III - IV - V- VI - VII - VIII - IX - X - XI - XII - XIII - XIV - XV - XVI - XVII - XVIII - XIX - XX - XXI - XXII - XXIII - XXIV - XXV - XXVI - XXVII - XXVIII - XXIX - XXX

Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Recorded by Hungarian Radio
Remarks, other info
Music to the radio drama based on the Hungarian Epic poem in fifteen parts written by Miklós Zrínyi in 1647 about the final battle of his great-grandfather Miklós Zrínyi against the Ottomans in 1566