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 Patriots (Victory and Grief of the Hungarian Patriot)


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
A honvédek (A magyar honvéd győzelme és keserve)
Foreign language / English title
The Patriots (Victory and Grief of the Hungarian Patriot)
Subtitle
Symphonic Fantasy
Year of composition
1860

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
orchestra
Movements, parts
One movement

Premiere information
1954, Hungarian Radio, Budapest; Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, György Lehel (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
Original score lost, new score reconstructed by György Geszler in 1953 using survived instrumental-parts