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

Among Glass Splinters - Variations for Orchestra


Composer

Original / Hungarian title
Üvegszilánkok között - Variációk zenekarra
Foreign language / English title
Among Glass Splinters - Variations for Orchestra
Year of composition
1976

Type
Orchestral work
Instrumentation
2 fl. (II. anche fl. picc.), 2 ob., 2 cl. in si b, 2 fg., cfg., 4 cor. in Fa, 2 tr. in Do, tuba, perc. (2 esec. - I anche 12 tuned glasses., II anche trg., 3 tom-tom, tam-tam) - prepared pf. - strings: 2 vl., 2 vla., vlc., cb.
Duration
9 min

Premiere information
8 January 1977, Kolozsvár, Romania; Symphony Orchestra Marosvásárhely, Lóránt Szalaman (cond.)

22 January 2003, Bartók Hall, Szombathely, Hungary; Savaria Symophony Orchgestra, János Petró (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Author´s Edition, 1994 (M. 007)
Recordings
Electrecord, ST-ECE 01504, 1978 - Symphony Orchestra Marosvásárhely, Lóránt Szalaman (cond.)