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

Cantus Felix, Op. 91


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Cantus Felix, Op. 91
Foreign language / English title
Cantus Felix, Op. 91
Subtitle
For soprano and orchestra, after songs by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Year of composition
2014

Type
Solo voice(s) with orchestra
Instrumentation
S. solo - orchestra
Duration
20 min

Movements, parts
1. Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Heine)
2. Intermezzo 1
3. Die Liebende schreibt (Goethe)
4. Intermezzo 2
5. Suleika – "Ach, um deine feuchten Schwingen" (Goethe)
6. Intermezzo 3
7. Suleika – "Was bedeutet die Bewegung?" (Goethe)

Text
HEINE, Heinrich; GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang;
Language
German
Premiere information
4 April 2014, Großer Musikvereinssal, Vienna; Mojca Erdmann (S.), Tonkünstler Orchesra Niederösterreich, Andrés Orozco-Estrada (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Remarks, other info
Based on poems by Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe