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

Simphonie Pathétique / Symphony No. 3, (Pathetic, A Minor)


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Simphonie Pathétique / III. (a-moll, Patetikus) szimfónia
Foreign language / English title
Simphonie Pathétique / Symphony No. 3, (Pathetic, A Minor)
Subtitle
For grand orchestra
Dedication
"for the Death of Elisabeth and to the Hungarian Nation"
Year of composition
1900

Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
picc., 3 fl., 3 ob., c.ing., 3 cl., cl.b., 3 fg., cfg. - 4 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tuba - timp., ptti. - arpa - strings: vl. 1, vl. 2, vla., vlc., cb.
Premiere information
30 January 1901, Pesti Vigadó, Pest; Budapest Philharmonic Society Orchestra, István Kerner (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS (Piano 4 hands)