Bela Bartók Sheet Music for Orchestra

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Sieben exquisite Sätze aus Bartóks Rumänischen Tänzen bilden diese wunderbare Ausgabe dieser so volksliedhafte Musik für Streicher. Mit vielfältigen Gelegenheiten für Soloeinlagen und einer einzigarti...

Bartók wrote his Piano Concerto No. 3 during the summer of 1945, intending it as a birthday present to be given to his wife, Ditta, on 31st October. By this time he was already gravely ill; however, h...

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The work is closest related to the 'Kossuth Symphony' inasmuch as it melds the Magyar style, represented by verbunkos melodies, with the idiom of Wagner and Richard Strauss. It features, however, a fe...

Dances of Transylvania is the orchestral version of 'Sonatina' (1915). In Sonatina, Bartók had arranged Romanian instrumental (chiefly bagpipe) music. The three movements of the work, 'Bagpipers', 'Be...

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 r...

Bartók was in his mid-thirties when he composed the ballet The Wooden Prince. (…) In Bartók's autobiographical sketch we are told that he had withdrawn completely from public musical life in 1912. On...

Bartók's Dance Suite was composed in 1923 and premiered in the same year in Budapest. The occasion was the 50th jubilee of the unification of Buda, Óbuda and Pest to Hungary's capital Budapest.

Bartók wrote 'Two Rumanian Dances' for piano, op. 8a in 1909-1910 and arranged the first of the pair for orchestra in time for a concert on 12 February 1911. The highly positive reviews of the premier...

'In the Mandarin he finally breaks with the romantic tradition and also turns away from the artistic endeavours typical of the turn of the century. The pantomime reflects for the first time what Bartó...