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

Overture to Henry IV, Op. 7


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Overture to Henry IV, Op. 7
Foreign language / English title
Overture to Henry IV, Op. 7
Subtitle
For orchestra
Year of composition
1855

Type
Orchestral work
Instrumentation
3 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 2 tr., 3 trb. - timp. - strings
Duration
15 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Premiere information
December 1855, Berlin
Publisher / Source
N. Simrock, Berlin 1902, Plate 11784. (Arrangement for 2 pianos by Johannes Brahms)
Available here!
Recordings
Naxos CD 8.570143, 2013 - Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Köhn (pf.)