Béla Bartók

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The piano series For Children is learned as standard repertoire for young musicians all over the world. These short pieces based on Hungarian folksongs appear here as selections for guitar, offering g...

The Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók were composed for piano in 1915. Two years later he transcribed it for chamber orchestra. The piece consists of seven folk dances from Transylvania, which is no...

The Marche funebre is a piano transcription of the concluding part of the symphonic poem Kossuth composed in summer 1903. The snappy rhythmic motif of the dramatic introduction bore the inscription 'D...

Based on the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15009), this volume includes Bartók's complete works for mixed voices. The lyrics in this Urtext edition are in the original languages and in the...

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...

From Bartok's famous For Children collection of short pieces for piano comes this expertly designed and carefully executed suite of four movements. For the youngest ensemble, great care has been taken...