Ferenc Erkel

Ferenc Erkel is a Compositeur Hungarian, father of the opera national, born the November 7th 1810 with Gyula and dead the June 25th 1893 with Budapest

Biography

Type-setter of the National anthem Hungarian according to a poem of Ferenc Kölcsey (1790-1838) going back to 1828. Erkel gains the contest of 1844 for its setting in music. She is interpreted for the first time at the national Opéra of Budapest, but becomes official only in 1903.

Hungarian national anthem

The poem is composed of eight stanzas but is regularly tiny room to the first at the time of the official events.

Blessed the Hungarian, O Lord, Make that it is happy and prosperous, Tighten towards him a protective arm When he faces the adversary! Give to which was crushed a long time, Peaceful days and without sorrows, These people largely paid For last times or which come. (...)

The poem Exhortation of Mihály Vörösmarty (1800-1855) put in music in 1843 by the type-setter Béni Egressy (1814-1851) tends to being regarded as a second national anthem.

Remainder faithful to your fatherland, Hungarian, it is your cradle. Of its flesh it nourished you And will be your tomb. With the vast world, elsewhere than in it, No the place for you. To live and die there, calls you Your destiny whatever it is. (...)

Operas

Bátori Mária (1840, in two acts) Mária Bátori is the amante of László, wire of Coloman of Hungary
Hunyadi László (1844, in four acts)
Erzsébet (1857, in three acts, only second are of Erkel)
Bánk bán (1861, in three acts) Bánk bán is the adviser of the king ( Palatine ) André II
Sarolta (1862, in three acts)
Dózsa György (1867, in five acts)
Brankovics György (1874, in four acts)
Névtelen hősök (1880, " the Heroes anonyms" , in four acts)
István király (1885, " king Étienne" , in four acts)
Kemény Simon (fragments; envisaged to comprise three acts)

External bonds

Operas of Erkel

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