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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

als ob jedoch nun

Composer
Zelenka István
Original / Hungarian title
als ob jedoch nun
Foreign language / English title
als ob jedoch nun
Subtitle
1 Gestural quartet for 4 women or 2 women and 2 men
Year of composition
2007
Type
Other
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
4 female (or 2 female and 2 male) performers
Duration
15 min
Publisher / Source
MS
Remarks, other info
"This composition replaces fixed pitches and rhythms with gestures such as snivelling, laughing, coughing, harrumphing, snarling, audible inhaling and exhaling and motionless, frozen waiting"