This is a new edition of Béla Bartók?s popular Romanian Folk Dances in its original scoring for Solo Piano. With fascinating background notes and unique imagery this publication is essential for pianistsinterested in the work of the Hungarian composer.When Bartók?was just 23 years old he visited the Transylvanian town of?Gerlicepuszta. Overhearing a lullaby sung by a teenage servant girl named L…

The Romanian Folk Dances undoubtedly rank amongst Bartok's most popular compositions. The earliest version is scored for Piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition is 1918. The composer himself orchestrated this version in 1917. Several other chamber music arrangements (for example Zoltan Szekely's version for Violin and Piano) were not by Bartok although he authorised them. The musical…

This is the new definitive collection for piano edited by Peter Bartók of Bartók's For Children based on Hungarian Folk Tunes.

Duets 1 to 25 of Bartok's celebrated set for two Violins that exhibit all the hallmarks of the composer's love of Hungarian folk music. All the duets are concise and straight-forward to play making this ideal material for two confident Violin students and an excellent resource for some entertaining and thought-provoking concert repertoire. Arranged in order of progressive difficulty each melody…

No. 1 The Prisoner-From the Four Hungarian Folksongs Bartok's The Prisoner is written for mixed chorus (SSAATTBB) a cappella.

For Children Vol. 2. Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher B…

Of the many works BartĂłk 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 Peasant Songs (Urtext edition HN 1404) the drafts were left untouched for the next twenty years. Not until 1941 when Boosey and Hawkes asked the composer to contribute to an anniversary album for the…

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 songs?. Bartók initiallywithdrew this work from publication however and added new pieces to it using folk music he had collected in the meantime. The first edition was only finally published in 1920. …

Bela Bartok is renowned for his settings of Folk music and these eight improvisation pieces are based around traditional Hungarian melodies. This version is the revised corrected edition the extant sources and the existing edition having been compared again in full. For Solo Piano.