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

Folk-Ballad of Kelemen the Mason


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Kőműves Kelemen népballada
Foreign language / English title
Folk-Ballad of Kelemen the Mason
Subtitle
For Four-part Mixed Choir, Childen´s Choir and Solo Instruments
Year of composition
1967

Type
Choir and solo instrument(s)
Instrumentation
mixed choir (S-A-T-B), children´s choir (S-A) - unspecified melody instrument (rec. or fl. or ob. or cl. etc.) - speaker
Duration
14 min

Text
Folk poetry
Language
Hungarian / Romanian
Premiere information
26 April 1969, Marosvásárhely, Romania; Mixed Choir and Children Choir of the Jobbágyfalva Community House, Ferenc Nagy (cond.)
Publisher / Source
"Simple Songs" Marosvásárhely Folk Art Regional House, 1968

Cellissimo Budapest 2006 (Choral Works No. 1)
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Remarks, other info
Romanian translation by Valeria Covatar