Péter Bartók

This revised edition was prepared by comparing the previously printed edition with all manuscripts, determining and eliminating printing errors. All together the following manuscript sources have been...

Facsimile Edition of the manuscript in the National Széchenyi Library, Budapest. With a commentary by László Somfai. Bound in boards.

von Lászlo Somtai - gebunden (Leinen)

This revised edition was prepared after examination of the previous published editions of all the nine pieces with the manuscript sources, an engraving copy and an intermediate draft. Most corrections...

This work, based on folk songs collected by the composer early in the twentieth century, was first published in the year 1918. The first publication contained the twenty pieces without requiring octav...

This revised edition was prepared by comparing the prior printed edition with the available manuscript sources, which are the following: 1) a manuscript, apparently intended as a final copy, on deposi...

An excerpt from the preface of the book: This written work is not a biography. Many excellent books of this kind have already been written, the first being by Halsey Stevens - not to mention the biogr...

HPS 607

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'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.

The fourth string quartet embodies that moment in Bartók's art in which the composer, surpassing the concentrated and retrospective third quartet, reaches a summit for the first time and casts his gaz...

'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...