Béla Bartók

This volume contains transcriptions of folksongs extracted from Bartók's world-renowned pedagogical piano series, For Children. In 2015 we launched this series to commemorate the 70th anniversary of t...

Béla Bartók composed his four-volume series comprising short pieces for beginner pianists, For Children, between 1908 and 1910. It consists of folksong and nursery song arrangements the first two volu...

Béla Bartók often used musical material from his folk music collections for his compositions. His Sonatina, originally written for solo piano in 1915, was based on songs that he collected in Transylva...

This publication is printed on high-quality, age-resistant paper that is produced in an environmentally-friendly, climate-neutral manner using renewable raw materials.

Béla Bartók planned in 1939 to arrange for two violins and three violins his choral works (for egual voices). He was prevented from doing this by his early death. At the request of the Editio Musica B...

In the years preceding World War I, Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók (1881-1945) took trips to the Transylvanian region to explore the musical traditions of the Romanian...

Béla Bartók himself did not write any works for organ. There are, however, some compositions in his piano collections 'Gyermekeknek' and 'Mikrokosmos' which are eminently playable on the organ and whi...

Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok assembled two sets of Romanian Christmas Carols for piano solo in 1915. Two of these contrasting settings fit the musical and technical parameters for less experien...

Hungarian-born composer Bela Bartok assembled two sets of Romanian Christmas Carols for piano solo in 1915. Two of these contrasting settings fit the musical and technical parameters for less experien...