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

The Mermaid


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
A sellő
Foreign language / English title
The Mermaid
Subtitle
On the Pál Gyulai´s poem, for large orchestra
Dedication
to Albert Apponyi
Year of composition
1874

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
orcheszra
Movements, parts
One movement

Premiere information
24 March 1875, Pesti Vigadó, Pest; Budapest Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Ödön Mihalovich (cond.)

8 May 1879, Wiesbaden, Germany; Tonküstlerverein Orchestra, hans von Bülow (cond.)
Publisher / Source
B. Shott´s Söhne, Mainz 1879