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

Forword - Cantata


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Előszó - Kantáta
Foreign language / English title
Forword - Cantata
Year of composition
1966

Type
Choir and orchestra
Instrumentation
choir - symphony orchestra
Duration
10 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
VÖRÖSMARTY, Mihály
Language
Hungarian
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD-31742, 2000 - Szent István Király Oratorio Choir Szent István Király Symphony Orchestra, János Ács (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Based on the first half of the poem "Foreword" by Mihály Vörömarty

Orchestrated by Rezső Sugár based on Pál Járdányi´s unfinished particella