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Wei wu wei

Composer
Jeney Zoltán
Original / Hungarian title
Wei wu wei
Foreign language / English title
Wei wu wei
Subtitle
For eight instruments
Year of composition
1968
Type
Ensemble
Number of players
8
Instrumentation
fl. (anche picc.), cl., vla., vlc., cb., arpa, cimb., perc. (3 crot., 4 camp., 2 ptti., 2 gong, tam-tam, marimba, vibr., camp.)
Duration
13 min
Commissioned by
the Budapest Chamber Ensemble
Premiere information
9 January 1969, Budapest; Budapest Chamber Ensemble, András Mihály (cond.)

First full performance as Wei Wu Wei:
11 December 1970, Budapest; New Music Studio Budapest, Péter Eötvös (cond.)
Publisher / Source
MS
Recordings
Hungarian Radio 1996 Zoltán Jeney´s Academic Inaugural Concert, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) - Componensemble, Zsolt Serei (cond.) (Available at nava.hu)
Remarks, other info
Revised: 1996