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QuatreQuatuors

Composer
Tornyai Péter
Original / Hungarian title
QuatreQuatuors
Foreign language / English title
QuatreQuatuors
Subtitle
For ensemble
Dedication
to the memory of the victims of the red mud catastrophe
Year of composition
2010
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
17
Instrumentation
Group A: ob., cor., vl. 1, pf.
Group B: cl.picc. (anche cl. in Bb.), trb.b., vl. 2, perc. (2 esec. - marimba, timp., 3 bongo, 3 gong, tam-tam, gr.c., wood bl.)
Group C: cl., (anche cl.b.), tr., vla., cimb.
Group D: fl., fg., vlc., arpa
Duration
14 min
Movements, parts
I - II - III - IV
Premiere information
8 February 2011, New Hungarian Music Forum Composition Competition, Palace of Arts, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest; UMZE Ensemble, Gergely Vajda (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Universal Music Publishing Editio Musica Budapest © 2011, T-32, Z. 14797
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Recordings
Budapest Music Center BMC PCD 28, 2011 - New Hugarian Music Forum Composition Competition 2011 (Live Recording: 30 April 2011, Studio 6, Hungarian Radio)
1 min. sample
1 QuatreQuatuors
Remarks, other info
The work was written for the New Hungarian Music Forum Composition Competition 2011, and won 1st Prize in the Chamber Music Category