''Mátraszentimrei dalok'' () is a collection of songs after Hungarian folk tunes by Hungarian composer
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde music, avant-garde composers in the latter half of the ...
. They are strongly influenced by fellow composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...
, who also used Hungarian folk songs as his basis for some of his compositions.
Composition and premiere
As Ligeti did with most of his early vocal compositions, this collection of pieces was composed in Budapest in 1955, but it was not premiered until June 9, 1984. The premiere took place in
Saarbrücken
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, with conducting the Kammerchor Hausen.
It was published by
Schott Music
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.
Analysis
The whole collection takes approximately 4 minutes to perform and consists of four folk songs. The
movement
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Generic uses
* Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece
* Movement (sign language), a hand movement when signing
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* Movement (music), a division of a larger co ...
s are:
The composition is scored for a 2-part (in movements one, two, and three) and a 3-part (in movement four) children's choir, regardless of it being a
boys' choir
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or a girls' choir. However, professional adult female singers have been used for most public performances and recordings.
Ligeti stated in the original score that the last movement can be
transposed
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that is, it switches the row and column indices of the matrix by producing another matrix, often denoted by (among other notations).
The tra ...
one tone higher for women's choirs. The text has also been translated into English by
Desmond Clayton.
See also
*
List of compositions by György Ligeti
This is a list of compositions by György Ligeti.
Source:
Orchestral
Concertos
* ''Concert românesc'' (1951)
* Cello Concerto (Ligeti), Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm (1966)
* Chamber Concerto (Ligeti), Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrum ...
References
External links
A preview of the score
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Compositions by György Ligeti
1955 compositions
Contemporary classical compositions
Choral compositions