Universal Edition - Béla Bartók – The Giant Stags | for tenor, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra

Béla Bartók
25.03.1881—26.09.1945

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The Giant Stags
09.09.2013, Luzern (CH)

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Béla Bartók
The Giant Stags | for tenor, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra

Work Details
Year of composition: 1930
Subtitle: Die Zauberhirsche
Scored for: for tenor, baritone, mixed choir and orchestra
Composer: Béla Bartók
Text Source: old Rumanian folk songs
Text Editor: Béla Bartók
Original Language: Ungarisch
Translator: Béla Bartók; Bence Szabolcsi; Robert Shaw
Choir: SATB
Soloinstruments/Soloists: tenor; baritone
Instrumentation: 3 3 3 3 - 4 2 3 1 - timp, perc(3), hp, str
Instrumentation details: 1st flute; 2nd flute (+picc); 3rd flute (+picc); 1st oboe; 2nd oboe; 3rd oboe; 1st clarinet in A (+cl(Bb)); 2nd clarinet in A (+cl(Bb); bass cl(Bb)); 3rd clarinet in A (cl(Bb)); 1st bassoon; 2nd bassoon; 3rd bassoon (+cbsn); 1st horn in F; 2nd horn in F; 3rd horn in F; 4th horn in F; 1st trumpet in C; 2nd trumpet in C; 1st trombone; 2nd trombone; 3rd trombone; bass tuba; timpani; percussion(3); harp; violin I; violin II; viola; violoncello; contrabass

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World Première
Location: London / Great Britain
Date: 25.05.1934
Conductor: Aylmer Buesst
Work Introduction

Béla Bartók's large-scale work for tenor, baritone, double mixed choir and orchestra tells the story of a father and his nine sons, who go out to hunt a stag but are themselves transformed into deer in the process. The Cantata profana, subtitled “The Magical Deer”, was written in 1930 [...]

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