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

Sechs Gesänge


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Sechs Gesänge
Foreign language / English title
Sechs Gesänge
Subtitle
For soprano voice and piano
Year of composition
1873

Type
Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s)
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
S., pf.
Duration
19 min

Movements, parts
1. Primula veris
2. Mädchenlied
3. Fern
4. Alphorn
5. Wie gerne dir zu Füssen
6. Das kranke Mädchen

Text
LENAU, Nikolas; GEIBEL, Emanuel; LINDBLAD, Fredrik; KERNER, Justinus; STRACHWITZ, Moritz von; REINICK, Robert;
Language
German
Publisher / Source
Táborszky & Parsch, Pest, C.57

F. Wessely, Wien

Fr. Hofmesiter, Leipzig © 1873
Recordings
SZFJCD001, 2021 - Zsófia Staszny (S.) (Mov. I, II, III and V), Nóra Tatai (S.) (Mov. IV and VI), János Ferenc Szabó (pf.)
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1871 - 1873

Based on the poems by Nikolaus Lenau, Emanuel Geibel, Fredrik Lindblad, Justinus Kerner, Moritz von Srachwitz, Robert Reinick