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

Mephisto


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Mephisto / Mefisztó
Foreign language / English title
Mephisto
Year of composition
2013

Type
Music for the theater
Number of players
9
Instrumentation
cl. (anche sax.), tr. - pf. - drum set - strings: 2 vln., vla., vlc., cb. - choir (actors)
Duration
20 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
MANN, Klaus;
Language
Hungarian/ English/German
Commissioned by
National Theater, Budapest
Premiere information
10 May 2013, National Theater, Budapest; Chamber Ensemble of the Danubia Orchestra, István Silló (cond.), Directed by Róbert Alföldi
Publisher / Source
Remarks, other info
Based on the text by Klaus Mann

Hungarian translation by Sarolta Lányi