Bartók's Rumanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915, are among his best-known works. They exist in multiple forms, since as well as several piano arrangements and a later orchestral version of his own the...
Long before his famous Mikrokosmos, Bartók composed a comprehensive collection of little piano pieces, entitled For Children. Written in 1908-1911, its two volumes are based on Hungarian and Slovakian...
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...
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...
> Joint publishing venture with Editio Musica Budapest Composed in 1910/11, Bartók's Allegro barbaro is one of his best-known and most popular works for piano. The composer himself enjoyed performing...
> 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...
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...
After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs (HN1404), these Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs are the second of Bartók's works to feature the words 'Hungarian peasant songs' in their title. The manne...
