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

Elegie and Dance


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Elegie and Dance / Elégia és tánc
Foreign language / English title
Elegie and Dance
Subtitle
For symphony orchestra
Year of composition
1954

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
3 fl., 2 ob. (anche c.ing.), 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. (2 esec.) - pf., arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
13 min

Movements, parts
1. Elegie: Andantino
2. Dance: Allegretto

Premiere information
1954, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein
Publisher / Source
Recordings
Naxos 8.572549, 2013 - Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Marisz Smolij (cond.)