Seiber, M Three Hungarian Folk-songs Ttbb
Matyas Seiber (1905-1960) was a Hungarian composer, who lived and worked in the UK from 1935 onwards. He was born in Budapest and studied with Kodaly , and toured the country to collect folk songs. Some of these were later published in 1949 as Three Hungarian Folk Songs , with English words by A. L. Lloyd (1908-1982), a singer, musicologist and self-styled “Folklorist”. Three Hungarian Folk Songs have been arranged for TTBB Male Voice Choir by the composer Trevor Widdicombe . A Piano reduction is included for rehearsal purposes. The songs are individually titled: The Handsome Butcher - Apple, Apple - The Old Woman .