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Title of the work

Three Elegies on Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo

Composer
Decsényi János
Original / Hungarian title
Három elégia Salvatore Quasimodo verseire
Foreign language / English title
Three Elegies on Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo
Subtitle
For double mixed choir
Year of composition
1962
Type
Mixed choir
Instrumentation
2 mixed choir (S-A-T-B)
Duration
10 min
Movements, parts
1. Éjszakai madármenedék / Night shelter of birds
2. Téli éj / Winter night
3. A pokolról / Once again on inferno
Text
QASIMODO, Salvatore; KÉPES, Géza
Language
Hungarian
Commissioned by
Hungarian Radio
Premiere information
1963, Hungarian Radio, Budapest; Choir of Hungarian Radio, Cecilia Vajda (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Recording of the premiere, Hungarian Radio, 1963 - Choir of Hungarian Radio, Cecilia Vajda (cond.)
Remarks, other info
Hungarian translation by Géza Képes