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

Sappho - Overture, Op. 44


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Sappho - Nyitány, Op. 44
Foreign language / English title
Sappho - Overture, Op. 44
Year of composition
1894

Type
Orchestral work
Instrumentation
3 fl., 2 ob., c.ing., 2 cl., cl.b., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - 3 timp. - 2 arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
18 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Publisher / Source
Edition N. Simrock Berlin, 1894
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Recordings
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adam Medveczky (cond.)