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

Die gelbe Lilie


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Sárga liliom
Foreign language / English title
Die gelbe Lilie
Subtitle
Hungarian rhapsody in 2 parts (12 pictures)
Year of composition
1934

Type
Stage work
Text
ZÁGON, István; FARKAS, Karl; HERCZEG, Géza
Language
Hungarian / German
Premiere information
5 January 1934, Stadttheater (later: Erkel Theater), Budapest

24 May 1934, Theater an der Wien, Vienna (German premiere)
Publisher / Source
Edition Victor Alberti, Vienna © 1934
Remarks, other info
Based on the play "Sárga liliom" by Lajos Biró, libretto by Géza Herczeg together with István Zágon and Karl Farkas