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Sopra canti diversi

Composer
Orbán György
Original / Hungarian title
Sopra canti diversi
Foreign language / English title
Sopra canti diversi
Subtitle
For string quartet
Year of composition
2015
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc.
Duration
5 min
Movements, parts
1. Kolinda / Colinda
2. Hóesés Brassóban / Snowfall in Brasov
3. Repülj, madár, repülj - pentaton dal / Fly, bird, fly - Pentatonic song
Commissioned by
Géza Szőcs Hungarian Government Commissioner of the EXPO 2015
Premiere information
9 July 2015, "Expo in Cittá", Puccini Concert Hall, Conservatory Milan, Italy; Kelemen Quartet
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
Based on a Hungarian folk song collected by László Lajtha in 1911

Composed for the EXPO 2015 in Milan after the composition "The Flow of the Danube" by the young Béla Bartók

See also original version:
Sopra canti diversi