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

Tanzsinfonie (Sinfonie No. 3) / Dance Symphony (Symphony No. 3)


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Tánc-szimfónia (3. szimfónia)
Foreign language / English title
Tanzsinfonie (Sinfonie No. 3) / Dance Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Subtitle
For orchestra
Year of composition
1936

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
3 fl., 3 ob., 3 cl., 3 fg. - 4 cor., 4 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., perc. - arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
31 min

Movements, parts
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante cantabile - Allegretto
3. Allegro
4. Andantino. Rondo - Molto vivo

Premiere information
14 March 1937, Great Hall of the Musikverein, Vienna; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Knappertsbusch (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH
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Recordings
Naxos 8.573274, 2015 - Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Mariusz Smolij (cond.)