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Legend of the Carapace-Scraper

Composer
Pongrácz Zoltán
Original / Hungarian title
A Teknőkaparó legendája
Foreign language / English title
Legend of the Carapace-Scraper
Subtitle
Oratorio
Year of composition
1985
Type
Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s)
Instrumentation
Bar. - mixed choir (S-A-T-B) - pf. (four hands), 3 synth. - electronics - perc.
Text
Folk text(s) - POLNER, Zoltán
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
26 January 1992, Budapest; György Bordás (Bar.), Kodály Choir Debrecen, Salamon Kamp (choir master), Mária Kovalszki (pf.), Marija Mrkic (pf.), Aranka Ménes (synth.), István Horváth (sound engineer), Zoltán Pongrácz (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
Based on Folk texts collected in the count Csongrád by Zoltán Polner