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Requiem for a Girl

Composer
Szabó Csaba
Original / Hungarian title
Requiem egy kislányért
Foreign language / English title
Requiem for a Girl
Year of composition
1985
Type
Choir and orchestra
Instrumentation
mixed choir - narrator - 3 fl., 3 cl. (III anche cl.b.) - 3 tr. - 4 timp., perc. (2 esec. - wood bl., marimba, gr.c., ptti., tam-tam, camp., vibr., tmb.picc.c.c., 3 tom-tom, ptto.sosp., gr.c., (toy) siren, 4 different little bell) - prepared pf., org. - strings: 5 vl. 1, 4 vl. 2, 3 vla., 2 vlc., 2 cb.
Duration
17 min
Movements, parts
1. Introduction and Variations Interrupted
2. Episode I.
3. Funeral Rhapsody
4. Episode II.
5. Funeral March
6. Dark Madrigal
7. Fughetta and Postlude
Text
SHAKESPEARE, William
Language
Hungarian
Premiere information
14 March 1986, Marosvásárhely, Romania; Júlia Nagy (Child narrator), Katalin Simon (S.), Péter Herz (Bar.), Ildikó Magdó´s Children Choir, Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Marosvásárhely, Lóránt Szalman (cond.)

8 April 1991, Bartók Hall, Szombathely, Hungary; Erzsébet Farkas (S.), Péter Hercz (Bar.), Ágnes Navratil (narrator), Children´s Choir of the Miklós Bercsényi Elemenary School in Szombathely, Éva Pajor (dir.), Oratoric Choir of Szombathely, Adrienne Vinczeffy (dir.), Szombathely Symphony Orchestra, János Petró (cond.)
Publisher / Source
The author´s edition 1992 (M.002)
Remarks, other info
Based on the text by William Shakespeare

Hungarian translation by László Lukin