Béla Bartók

This Suite is a free adaptation of the Suite for Orchestra op. 4, written in Vienna in 1905-1907.

Bartók is regarded as one of the most important composers of the 20th century. He became famous both as a music teacher and as an ethnomusicologist. Being a trained pianist, his relation to the piano...

Béla Bartók's series of piano pieces For Children, based on folk melodies, was written around the end of the first decade of the 20th century. The pieces were published shortly afterwards by the Hunga...

Zwiegespräch - Volkslied - Volkslied - Menuett - Tanz des Schweinehirten - Wo warst du, Lämmchen mein - Hochzeitslied - Bauertanz - Walzer

Bartók's Mikrokosmos has been one of the milestones in pedagogical piano repertoire for 80 years - and yet it is also far more than a 'classical' piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organized in asc...

> Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest Bartók used different melodies taken from Romanian instrumental folk music in his Sonatina. A look at the sources shows how, in 1915, the piece s...

The four-movement Suite op. 14 was composed in 1916 and was one of Bartók's favourite piano works throughout his life. Unlike in his other works for piano of these years, he did not use any folksong m...

In a note for the planned first edition of his Hungarian Peasant Songs in 1914, Bartók wrote that 'the melodies published here are folksongs in the truest sense of the word; more precisely, peasant so...

Bartók's Romanian Christmas carols are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave 'the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, r...

Of the many works Bartók composed on Hungarian and Romanian folk melodies between 1914 and 1918, these three piano pieces occupy a special place. Originally outlined for the collection 15 Hungarian Pe...

Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the milestones in the pedagogical piano repertoire - and yet it is also far more than a 'classical' piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organised in ascending order of...

Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the milestones in the pedagogical piano repertoire - and yet it is also far more than a 'classical' piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organised in ascending order of...

Bartók's Mikrokosmos is one of the milestones in the pedagogical piano repertoire - and yet it is also far more than a 'classical' piano primer. These 153 piano pieces, organised in ascending order of...

With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, wit...

This revised edition has been prepared after comparison of the previous edition with all available sources. Manuscripts, or their copies with additions in the composer's handwriting, of the two-piano...

From a letter from Béla Bartók during the First World War: "I consider it my life's goal to continue and complete my studies of Romanian folk music, at least in Transylvania..." For the time being, ho...

The 'Romanian Folk Dances' undoubtedly rank amongst Bartók's most popular compositions. The earliest version is scored for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918. ln the preparati...

This revised edition was prepared with reference to all manuscript sources that could be found: the sketch, final (engraving) copy, a corrected proof of the first printed edition and some communicatio...

In the Allegro barbaro, which was composed in 1911, Bartók combines modern harmonics with Hungarian folk melodies. This revised edition was prepared by comparing the last printed edition with the ava...

In preparing this revised edition the available manuscript sources have been compared with the latest printed edition and the discrepancies were analyzed. The manuscript sources are: 1. the sketch of...

This volume of Béla Bartók's Out doors for piano contains the pieces With Drums and Pipes, Barcarolla and Musettes. Béla Bartók's concept of these compositions is that of a series of five individual p...