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

Der Turm / The Tower


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Der Turm / A torony
Foreign language / English title
Der Turm / The Tower
Subtitle
For soprano and bass soli, mixed choir and orchestra
Year of composition
1967

Type
Solo voice(s), choir & orchestra
Instrumentation
S., B. - mixed choir (S-A-T-B) - 2 timp., perc. (1 esec. - campli., xylorimba, camp., frusta, 6 ptti.sosp., 3 tom-tom, gr.c., tam-tam
Duration
12 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Text
biblical
Language
Latin / Hungarian
Publisher / Source
MS (János Darvas, Cologne 1992)
Available here!
Remarks, other info
Text based on Genesis I.11

Revised: 1983

Hungarian translation for the revised version by Gáspár Károli