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

Symphony No. 1 (D Minor)


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
I. (d-moll) szimfónia
Foreign language / English title
Symphony No. 1 (D Minor)
Subtitle
For grand orchestra
Dedication
to Johann von Végh
Year of composition
1879

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 2 trb., trb.b., tuba - 2 timp., perc. (trg., ptti.) - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Movements, parts
1. Allegro con moto
2. Allegretto scherzando - Più moto
3. Marcha funebre: Adagio assai
4. Allegro - Un poco sostenuto

Premiere information
20 March 1885, Pesti Vigadó, Pest; Budapest Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Sándor Erkel (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 16028
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