- General information
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Composition date:
1939 - 1943
- Duration: 24 mn
- Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
- Dedication: à mon père
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Libretto (details, author):
texte en hébreu issu des Lamentations de Jérémie.
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Composition date:
1939 - 1943
- Type
- Vocal music and instrument(s) [1 female voice and orchestra]
Detailed formation
- soloist: mezzo-soprano
- 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, Eb clarinet, bass clarinet [ou clarinette mib] , 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionists [ou 4] , piano, strings
Premiere information
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Date:
28 January 1944
Location:États-Unis, Pittsburgh, Mosquée de Syrie
Performers:Jennie Tourel : mezzo-soprano, le Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, direction : Leonard Bernstein.
Table of contents
I. Prophecy ; II. Profanation ; III. Lamentation.