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

L’ultimo Canto di Saffo / The Last Song of Sappho


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
L’ultimo Canto di Saffo
Foreign language / English title
L’ultimo Canto di Saffo / The Last Song of Sappho
Subtitle
For piano
Year of composition
2010

Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
pf.
Duration
8 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Premiere information
25 May 2010, Fourth Portrait Concert dedicated to the works of Alessio Elia, Lindemansalen, Norges Musikkhøgskole, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo; Alessio Elia (pf.)

27 November 2011, Piano Festival "Eufonia", Fifth Portrait Concert dedicated to the works of Alessio Elia, Rome; Alessio Elia (pf.)
Publisher / Source
Remarks, other info
After Giacomo Leopardi’s poem with the same title