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

Festspiel-Ouverture / Festival Overture


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Ünnepi játék nyitány
Foreign language / English title
Festspiel-Ouverture / Festival Overture
Subtitle
For Symphonic Wind Band
Dedication
to Albert Häberling
Year of composition
1984

Type
Wind orchestra
Instrumentation
4 fl. 1, 4 fl. 2, 4 fl. 3 (anche picc.), ob. 1, ob. 2, cl.picc., 4 cl. 1, 4 cl. 2, 4 cl. 3, cl.b., fg. 1, 2 fg. 2 (ad lib. anche cfg.), 2 sax.a., 2 sax.t., 2 sax.bar. - 3 crnt. 1, 3 crnt. 2, tr. 1, tr. 2, tr. 3, cor. 1, cor. 2, cor. 3, cor. 4, 2 trb. 1, 2 trb. 2, 3 trb. 3, 3 flic.t., 2 euph., 3 tuba 1, 3 tuba 2 - timp, perc. (tmb.mlt., gr.c., 3 bongo, 2 tom-tom, ptti., gong, trg., xil., vibr., campli.)
Duration
9 min

Movements, parts
One movement

Commissioned by
International Festive Music Days Uster, 1985 (Switzerland)
Premiere information
1985, Uster, Schwitzerland; Zürich Symphonic Wind Band, Alber Häbe (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest © 1987, Z. 13141
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Recordings
Radioton SLMP-16814 - MÁV Wind Symphony Pécs, Károly Neumayer (cond.)
CD "Fúvós Expressz" - MÁV Wind Symphony Pécs, Károly Neumayer (cond.)