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

Vier ungarische Frauenchöre / Four Hungarian Female Choirs


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Négy nőikar
Foreign language / English title
Vier ungarische Frauenchöre / Four Hungarian Female Choirs
Dedication
"to Maria Katanics and the Erzsébet Szilágyi Choir"
Year of composition
1982

Type
Female choir
Instrumentation
female choir (S-Ms-A)
Movements, parts
1. Elsőség / Lead - Moderato, parlando
2. Aki ma sír / Those who cry today - Lento, appassionato
3. Párbeszéd / Dialogue - Molto rubato, parlando
4. A Kigyó és a Ráspoly / The snake and the rasp - Andante

Text
KERESZTÚRY, Dezső; RILKE, Rainer Maria; FEDERICO GARCÍA, Lorca; LA FONTAINE, Jean de
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
24 March 1985, Budapest; Erzsébet Szilágyi Choir, Maria Katanics (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest © 1992, Z. 13952
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Remarks, other info
Based on poems by Dezső Keresztúry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca and Jean de La Fontaine

Hungarian translations by Antal Doráti and Miklós Radnóti