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

Oh! quand je dors (S.282) / Oh! when I sleep (S.282)


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Oh! quand je dors (S.282) / Ha álmom mély (S.282)
Foreign language / English title
Oh! quand je dors (S.282) / Oh! when I sleep (S.282)
Year of composition
1841

Type
Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
S. (or T.), pf.
Duration
4 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
HUGO, Victor
Language
French / German / Hungarian
Publisher / Source
Edition Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1917. Plate F.L. VII 5

Editio Musica Budapest 1999, Z. 14203
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Recordings
EMI Classics CD 6293652, 2010 - Barbara Hendricks (S.), Michel Beroff (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Revised: 1849

Based on the Poem by Victor Hugo

German translation by Peter Cornelius

Hungarian translation by Viktor Lányi