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

Missa Brevis


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Missa Brevis
Foreign language / English title
Missa Brevis
Subtitle
For 4 speaker, mixed choir and 12 instruments
Year of composition
1982

Type
Solo voice(s), choir & chamber orchestra
Instrumentation
4 speaker - mixed choir - fl., ob., cl., fg. - tr., cor., trb., tuba - strings: 2 vl., vla., vlc.
Duration
18 min

Language
German
Premiere information
1982, Stuttgart, Germany; (Produced by SDR Stuttgart)
Publisher / Source
Recordings
SWR Stuttgart - Barbara Stoll, Ute Ronwald, Dirk Morgner, Halvor Boller, Vocal Ensemble and Ensemble for New Music of the College of Music Stuttgart (Available on youtube.com)
Remarks, other info
After texts by Thomas Brasch, Paul Celan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Wladimir Majakowski etc.