The Miraculous Mandarin

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The Miraculous Mandarin is a one-act pantomime ballet by Béla Bartók, renowned for its modernist, dissonant score and dark, expressionist storyline.

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Miraculous Mandarin 1
The Miraculous Mandarin canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf one-act ballet ⓘ
orchestral work ⓘ
pantomime ballet ⓘ
bannedIn Germany ⓘ
Hungary ⓘ
basedOn story by Melchior Lengyel ⓘ
catalogueNumber BB 82 ⓘ
Sz. 73 ⓘ
characteristic dark storyline ⓘ
dissonant score ⓘ
composer Béla Bartók ⓘ
compositionEndYear 1924 ⓘ
compositionStartYear 1918 ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Hungary ⓘ
genre ballet ⓘ
modernist music ⓘ
pantomime ⓘ
hasOrchestralSuite The Miraculous Mandarin (concert suite) ⓘ
influencedBy expressionist theatre ⓘ
urban modernity ⓘ
languageOfLibretto Hungarian ⓘ
librettist Melchior Lengyel ⓘ
mainCharacter the Girl ⓘ
the Mandarin ⓘ
three thugs ⓘ
movementCountInSuite 3 ⓘ
notableFeature bitonality and polytonality ⓘ
complex rhythms ⓘ
use of leitmotifs ⓘ
notableInstrumentation extensive percussion ⓘ
large orchestra ⓘ
prominent brass ⓘ
notableRecording The Miraculous Mandarin conducted by Georg Solti ⓘ
The Miraculous Mandarin conducted by Pierre Boulez ⓘ
numberOfActs 1 ⓘ
orchestralSuiteArrangedBy Béla Bartók ⓘ
orchestralSuiteYear 1927 ⓘ
period 20th-century classical music ⓘ
plotElement Mandarin dies only after his desire is fulfilled ⓘ
Mandarin repeatedly survives attempts to kill him ⓘ
girl used as decoy to lure men to be robbed ⓘ
premiereConductor Eugen Szenkar ⓘ
premiereCountry Germany ⓘ
premiereDate 1926-11-27 ⓘ
premiereLocation Cologne ⓘ
premiereTheatre Stadttheater Köln ⓘ
reasonForBan sexual and violent content ⓘ
setting urban underworld ⓘ
style expressionism ⓘ
yearOfCompletion 1924 ⓘ

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Béla Bartók → notableWork → The Miraculous Mandarin ⓘ
Aslı Erdoğan → notableWork → Miraculous Mandarin ⓘ
linked to: The Miraculous Mandarin