Albert Szirmai - Selected Works

Selected Works

• A sárga dominó (The Yellow Domino), operetta, 1907
• Bálkirályné (The Belle of the Ball), operetta, 1907
• Naftalin (Naphthalene), musical comedy, 1908
• Táncos huszárok (Dancing Hussars), operetta, 1909
• A mexikói lány (The Mexican Girl), operetta, 1912
• The Girl on the Film, musical play, 1913
• Ezüstpille (Silver Butterfly), operetta, 1914
• Mágnás Miska (Magnate Miska), operetta, 1916
• Harangvirág (Bellflower), ballad, 2 tableaux, 1918
• Gróf Rinaldo (Count Rinaldo), operetta, 1918
• Mézeskalács (Honey Cake), musical comedy, 1923
• The Bamboula, operetta, 1925
• Alexandra, operetta, 1925 (first presented in English as Princess Charming in 1926)
• Éva grófnő (Countess Eva), operetta, 1928
• Lady Mary, musical play, 1928
• Ripples, musical comedy, 1930
• A ballerina, operetta, 1931
• A Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan, Simon & Schuster, New York 1941 (later published as Martyn Green's Treasury of Gilbert & Sullivan). Szirmai is probably best known to music lovers through this book. Szirmai reduced Sullivan's orchestrations of several songs from each Gilbert and Sullivan opera and simplified them so that they can be played by intermediate piano students of average skill.
• A Treasury of Grand Opera, Simon & Schuster, New York 1946. Szirmai created piano solos of arias from famous operas—Mozart's Don Giovanni, Carmen, La Traviata, Gounod's Faust, Lohengrin, et al., but this book never achieved the popularity of the Gilbert & Sullivan book. The pieces are more difficult to play, and operatic arias are more difficult to sing than Gilbert & Sullivan.
• Tabáni legenda (The Legend of Tabán), operetta, 1957
• A Tündérlaki lányok (The Tündérlaki Sisters), operetta, 1964