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Title of the work

The Death of Orpheus

Composer
Balogh Máté
Original / Hungarian title
The Death of Orpheus
Foreign language / English title
The Death of Orpheus
Subtitle
On Ovid´s story of the same title
Year of composition
2014
Type
Stage work
Number of players
6
Instrumentation
reciter - cl., tr., tuba - perc. (xil., tam-tam, ptto.sosp., tambourine, trg., wood bl.) - vlc.
Duration
12 min
Movements, parts
1. Prima parte
2. Seconda parte
3. Terza perta
Text
OVIDIUS
Language
English
Commissioned by
Liszt Academy in 2014
Premiere information
4 July 2014, Erasmus Program Closing Concert: "Ovid’s Metamorphoses", Georg Solti Hall, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest; Zsuzsanna Dóry (vlc.), Csaba Pálfi (cl.), Gionata Gori (tr.), Zalán László Kovács (tuba), Luca Bloise (perc.), Péter Dobszay (cond.) - Máté Balogh (Orpheus 1), Károly Márk Kovács (The bad guy), Ioana Cheregi (Orpheus 2), Andrei Stan (Orpheus 3), Blanka Moldován (Orpheus 4), Luka Bulović (Orpheus 5), Dajana Čuljak (Orpheus 6), Martina Čvek (Orpheus 7)
Publisher / Source
MS
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Remarks, other info
Composed: 2013 - 2014