• Year of composition: 1952
  • Work category: Incidental music
  • Text author: Euripides
  • First performed: Not aired on the radio
  • Duration: Approx. 15-20 min

Instrumentation

3*.3*.03* / 0.2.0.0 / perc
(picc, cor angl, dbn)
perc: cymb

Solo voices/choir

Women's choir: unison alto choir con bocca chiusa

  • Location autograph: Sveriges Radios Musikbibliotek
  • Possible call no. and autograph comment: T 118

Description of work

C major 2/4
1. Poseidons entrance: Adagio
2. Athenas entrance: Allegro (2 tp, perc)
3. Athenas exit: Allegro (2 tp, perc)
4. Menelaos entrance: Giocoso
5. humming female voices: Molto tranquillo
6. Trumpet signals in the distance: Allegro
7. Postlude: Allegro, Adagio. Molto pesante


Work comment

The music was not used for this work, but was put to use in Rabbe Enckell's Hekuba