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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.

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Title of the work

Elegy

Composer
Seiber Mátyás
Original / Hungarian title
Elegy
Foreign language / English title
Elegy
Subtitle
For viola and small orchestra
Year of composition
1953
Type
Orchestral work
Instrumentation
vla. solo - 2 fl. (II anche picc.), ob., cl., cl.b., fg. - 2 cor., 3 tr. - timp., perc. (tmb.picc.c.c, ptto., wood bl., xil.) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
8 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
1954, Donaueschingen, Germany
Publisher / Source
Schott Music Ltd., London (Material on hire)
Available here!
Recordings
Decca SXL 2232, 1960 - Cecil Aronowitz (vla.), The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mátyás Seiber (cond.)
< br> Lyrita Reorded Edition, 2015, SRCD.348 - Cecil Aronowitz (vla.), The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mátyás Seiber (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1951 - 1953