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

Studies for Orchestra


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Studies for Orchestra / Tanulmányok zenekarra
Foreign language / English title
Studies for Orchestra
Year of composition
1970

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
3 fl. (III anche picc.), 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - perc. (5 esec.) - pf., arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
24 min

Movements, parts
1. Prelude (Allegretto)
2. Slow Fantasy (Andantino)
3. Capriccioso (Allegro vivo)
4. Introduction - Scherzo (Moderato, Allegro)
5. Potpourri (Moderato, Vivo)
6. Song (Allegretto)
7. Crescendo-Decrescendo (Moderato)
8. Rhapsodia (Molto moderato, Allegretto, Vivace)

Premiere information
12 November 1970; Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Sixten Ehrling (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MCA/Universal
Available here!
Recordings
Cambria Catalog CD 1100, 1999 - Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Paul Freeman (cond.)