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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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desto

Composer
Zelenka István
Original / Hungarian title
desto
Foreign language / English title
desto
Subtitle
Occupation for 10 project participants
Year of composition
2000
Type
Other
Number of players
10
Duration
600 min
Premiere information
2000, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
"For 10 project participants: rather more vocalists, rather more instrumentalists or rather more non-specialists or bodily gesturing and an undefined number of people entering the room. As in several of my projects "desto" does away with the customary interpreter/audience confrontation. This piece is basically about occupation with and not production of.

This composition, performed in the ´Dampfzentrale´ in Berne, can be arranged for new/other circumstances.