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

Ostdeutsche Autofantasie / East-German Car-Fantasy


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Ostdeutsche Autofantasie / Kelet-német autófantázia
Foreign language / English title
Ostdeutsche Autofantasie / East-German Car-Fantasy
Subtitle
For tuba and piano (or wind orchestra)
Dedication
to Roland Szentpáli
Year of composition
2022

Type
Concerto
Number of players
2
Instrumentation
tuba, pf. (or wind orchestra: picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., cl. in Eb, 3 cl., cl.b., 2 sax.a., sax.t., sax.bar., 2 fg. - 4 cor., 2 crnt., 3 tr., 3 trb., 2 tuba)
Duration
7 min

Movements, parts
1. Trabant 601
2. IFA W50
3. Wartburg 353

Commissioned by
Roland Szentpáli
Premiere information
18 October 2023, Roland Szentpáli´s Tuba Recital, FSzEK Ötpacsirta Szalon, Budapest; Roland Szentpáli (tuba), Henrik Szőcs (pf.)

30 April 2024, Kodály Center, Pécs, Hungary; Roland Szentpáli (tuba), Zsolnay Wind Orchestra, András Major (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Remarks, other info
The composition is a program music based on the engine-rhythms of three East-German cars.