Bartok

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Playing in Pairs: Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra
Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra challenges the educated listener on several fronts, starting with the title itself. A concerto is a work for soloist and orchestra (or, perhaps, soloist versus orchestra!). What are we to think of a work where
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In the Service of Music
Béla Bartók and Ditta Pásztory
Béla Bartók had always been interested in young girls. His first wife Márta was only sixteen when they married, and he did have an extramarital affair with the fifteen-year-old poetess Klára. Bartók also vigorously but unsuccessfully pursued the young violinist
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Béla Bartók
“Competitions are for horses, not artists”
Composed to celebrate the union of the cities of Buda and Pest into the present-day Hungarian capital in 1923, the Dance Suite quickly became one of Béla Bartók’s most popular works. It did more for Bartók’s reputation, in the positive
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Béla Bartók—Composer, Countryman and Collector
Béla Bartók my father’s Hungarian countryman, is considered a composer of profound influence in the 20th century. If you haven’t yet met him I am delighted to share some of my favorite works with you.
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Rebound from a Break Up
Béla Bartók and Márta Ziegler
When Stefi Geyer rejected Béla Bartók’s proposal of marriage, the composer fell into a deep depression. Unable to sleep, he lost his appetite and obsessed with not being able to attain something he truly desired. And for many years to
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Béla Bartók: Discovering his musical voice
Béla Bartók (1881-1945) was one of the most influential figures in the history of classical music. Composer, performer, educator, and ethnomusicologist, Bartók’s powerfully shaped the way subsequent generations approached and listened to music. Born near the Hungarian city of Nagyszentmiklós,
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Béla Bartók
Art is a matter of evolution, not revolution 70 years ago, the world completely ignored the passing of one of the most creative and influential composers of the 20th century. Béla Bartók (1881–1945) originally hailed from the Hungarian town of
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Sean Chen, Crystal Award, 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
Béla Bartók Three Etudes Op.18 I. Allegro molto From Sean Chen, Crystal Award, 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2013) Released by Harmonia Mundi Bartók: Three Etudes Op.18 – I. Allegro moltoAn amazing recording by Sean Chen, “An artist with
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