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M.C. Escher in Rio

Composer
Balogh Máté
Original / Hungarian title
M.C. Escher in Rio
Foreign language / English title
M.C. Escher in Rio
Subtitle
The Jamaican Men´s 4x100 Metamorphosis - For string quartet (with four car-cymbals)
Dedication
to Péter Tornyai
Year of composition
2026
Type
Chamber Music
Number of players
4
Instrumentation
strings: vl. 1 (anche car-cymbal), vl. 2 (anche car-cymbal), vla. (anche car-cymbal), vlc. (anche car-cymbal)
Duration
7 min
Premiere information
10 October 2026, Concert: Chess Pieces, Solti Hall, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest; Sonus Cordis Quartet: Eszeter Krulik, Róza Lachegyi (vl.), Boglárka Szűcs (vla.), Flóra Matuska (vlc.)
Publisher / Source
MS
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Remarks, other info
Notes by the composer: My work draws inspiration from two distinct sources: on the one hand, Metamorphosis II (1940), the woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher; on the other, the Jamaican men´s 4x100-meter relay team´s gold medal-winning performance at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The conceptual common ground between these two points of departure lies in the chess-figure of bishop, which in Hungarian is called futó - a word that literally means "runner."