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

Twelve Songs


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Tizenkét dal
Foreign language / English title
Twelve Songs
Subtitle
On texts by Dezső Tandori, for voice and piano (or cimbalom)
Dedication
to György Kurtág and Zoltán Jeney
Year of composition
1991

Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
voice, pf. (or cimb.)
Duration
12 min

Movements, parts
I - II - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII - IX - X - XI - XII

Text
TANDORI, Dezső
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
26 April 1997, Kunsthaus, Budapest; Adrienne Csengery (S.), Ildikó Vékony (cimb.)
Publisher / Source
Recordings
Live recording, 2005 - Zsuzsanna Lukin (S.), Ildikó Vékony (cimb.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1989 - 1991, revised: 1997