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

Pietà - Taking Descartes off the cross


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Pietà – Descartes levétele a keresztről
Foreign language / English title
Pietà - Taking Descartes off the cross
Subtitle
Instrumental theater à la Kagel, for singing harpsichord-player and sound system
Year of composition
2018

Type
Stage work
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
prepared cemb. (anche voice), sound system
Duration
12 min

Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
14 January 2020, Dóra Pétery (cemb., speaker)
Publisher / Source
Recordings
Video recording of the premiere, 2020 - Dóra Pétery (cemb., voice) (Available on youtube.com)