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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.

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Title of the work

The Wonder Tree

Composer
Orbán György
Original / Hungarian title
A csodafa
Foreign language / English title
The Wonder Tree
Subtitle
Symphonic tale for narrator and orchestra
Year of composition
2006
Type
Symphony orchestra
Instrumentation
narrator - orchestra
Text
PONCELET, Marianne
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
4 May 2008, "Music and Tales" - Youth concert by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Festival Theater, MÜPA, Budapest; Pál Mácsai (narrator), Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Mátyás Antal (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Csimota Könyvkiadó CD - Pál Mácsai (narrator), Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
Remarks, other info
The Hungarian version of Marianne Poncelet´s "The Wonder Tree" was created by the translator, writer and Attila József Prize winning poet Krisztina Tóth and it is this text that György Orbán has set to music.