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Title of the work

Spring Flower

Composer
Ligeti György
Original / Hungarian title
Tavaszi virág
Foreign language / English title
Spring Flower
Subtitle
Music for puppet theatre on a Chinese fairy tale by Sergey Preobrazhensky, for 6 singers and ensemble
Year of composition
1949
Type
Music for the theater
Instrumentation
6 voice soli - actors - 2 rec. (ad lib. picc and fl.) - perc. (3 esec.: xil. [or cimb.], trg., ptti., gong, tmb.picc., 3 wood bl., 6 water bottle) - pf. - strings: vla.
Duration
55 min
Text
PREOBRAZHENSKY, Sergey;
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
8 October 1949, Opening of the Hungarian State Puppet Theater, Budapest; Directed by Dr. Zoltán Körmöczi

1 March 1951, Hungarian State Puppet Theater, Budapest; Directed by Gábor Nagy
Publisher / Source
Schott Music, LS 6200-1 (Performance material on hire) (MS at Paul Sacher Foundation - György Ligeti Collection)
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Remarks, other info
Hungarian translation by János Zsombor

Libretto by Dr. Zoltán Körmöczi