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Mouvement pour alto et orchestre / Movement for Viola and Orchestra

Composer
Kurtág György
Original / Hungarian title
Tétel brácsára és zenekarra
Foreign language / English title
Mouvement pour alto et orchestre / Movement for Viola and Orchestra
Dedication
to Imre Pataki
Year of composition
1954
Type
Concerto
Instrumentation
vla. solo - 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg. - 3 cor., 2 tr. - timp., perc. - strings
Duration
12 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
1955, Debrecen, Hungary; Imre Pataki (vla.), Debreceni MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar (Railway Symphony Orchestra of Debrecen), Tamás Blum (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Editio Musica Budapest © 1961, Z. 3210 (score, out of print), Z. 2957 (piano reduction)
Available here!
1 min. sample
1 Movement for Viola and Orchestra
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1953 - 1954

First Movement of the Viola Concerto. The second Movement has been revoked.
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
ECM Records