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

Hungarian King-anthem


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Magyar király-hymnus
Foreign language / English title
Hungarian King-anthem
Subtitle
For male choir or mixed coir, or male choir and wind orchestra
Year of composition
1890

Type
Choral music
Instrumentation
male choir or mixed choir (or male choir - wind orchestra)
Movements, parts
One movement

Text
JÓKAI, Mór
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
29 October 1890, Hungarian Royal Opera House, Budapest; Budapest Philharmonic Society Orchestra, Gustav Mahler (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Harmonia Budapest, 1890
Remarks, other info
After the poem by Mór Jókai