Editio Musica Budapest

The composition for eleven homogeneous choirs was written between 1989 and 2005. These pieces, easy to sing but written in the present-day musical idiom, can be performed by either children?s or femal...

Le compositeur, chef de chœur, musicologue et éducateur musical Lajos Bárdos est né le 1er octobre 1899 à Budapest et a étudié la composition avec Zoltán Kodály à l'Académie de musique de Budapest. En...

The sacred choral works of Lajos Bárdos, more than a decade after the composer?s death, are being performed more and more often worldwide. These pieces, among which every type is represented, from the...

The noted Hungarian choirmaster and composer, born in 1930, composed this short, jubilant choral work to the Latin text of Psalm 98 (97 in many English translations). Written in 2013 for the 23rd Inte...

The piece was written originally for equal voice choir in 1929. A mixed-choir adaptation was made in 1961 at the request of Oxford University Press. This appeared in print in the same year with an Eng...

Composed in 1948, Kodály s compelling Geneva Psalm 50 uses the original psalm tune as a cantus firmus while adapting the original Calvinist psalter s rhythms to the Hungarian language. In addition to...

Liszt composed the Missa Solennis in 1855 for the consecration of the Basilica in Esztergom. It is usually called the 'Graner Messe' after 'Gran', the comtemporary German name Esztergom. The first per...

The Coronation Mass was composed by Liszt for the coronation of King Franz Joseph I and Queen Elisabeth. The first performance of the work took place on June 8, 1867 at the Mathias Church at Buda. Als...

Liszt Separate Editions are published with scholarly authenticity and are based on the New Liszt Edition. Their musical scores and presentation correspond to the complete edition, yet their extent is...

De profundis, composé en 1834 mais laissé inachevé, marque un tournant dans l'évolution de Liszt en tant que compositeur. Ce "psaume instrumental" pour piano et orchestre, d'une durée de plus de 30 mi...