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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

Enigma

Composer
Viski János
Original / Hungarian title
Enigma
Foreign language / English title
Enigma
Subtitle
Symphonic poem for large orchestra
Dedication
to Willem Mengelberg
Year of composition
1939
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
3 fl., 3 ob., 3 cl., 3 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. - arpa, cel, - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
17 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
1940, Budapest; Orchestra of the Budapest Pilharmonic Society, Lajos Rajter (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Universal Edition Vienna
Available here!
Recordings
Hungaroton HCD-31988, 2001 - Hungarian State Concert Orchestra, Gyula Németh (cond.)
Qualiton LPX 1159, 1963 - Hungarian State Concert Orchestra, Gyula Németh (cond.)
Remarks, other info
After the poem "Enigma" by Bálint Balassi

Winner of the Kisfaludy Society´s Greguss-Medallion