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

Drei Studien / Three Studies


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Drei Studien / Három tanulmány
Foreign language / English title
Drei Studien / Three Studies
Subtitle
für Gemischten Chor / For mixed choir
Dedication
to the University of Maryland
Year of composition
1976

Type
Mixed choir
Instrumentation
mixed choir (S-A-T-B)
Duration
10 min

Movements, parts
1. Herbsttag - Langsam / Autumn Day - Slowly
2. Ernste Stunde - Leise und ziemlich frei / Grave Hour - Quietly and quite freely
3. Stanzas - Mässig schnell / Stanzas - Moderately fast

Text
RILKE, Rainer Maria
Language
German / English
Premiere information
1976, University of Maryland, USA; University of Maryland Choir, Paul Trave (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Musikverlag Müller & Schade © 1998, M&S 1342, M&S 1273
Available here!
Remarks, other info
On poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

English translation by Hester Norton