Béla Bartók

Bartok is famous for his love of Hungarian and Romanian folk music. He spent many summers traveling through small villages in both Hungary and Romania recording and transcribing folk music, a lot of w...

Kovács, Béla, arr.

Kovács, Béla, arr.

Sonatina for piano was composed in 1915. In the work Bartók used five original Romanian instrumental folk dance melodies which he had recorded during his folk music collecting trips in Transylvania be...

for Clarinet and Piano. An exciting arrangement of Bartok's 1915 Sonatina, this work is steeped in the folk music of Hungary. A great addition to the clarinet repertoire! Three movements: Bagpipers, B...

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An ABRSM syllabus title 2014-21, Grade 6. From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down th...

Bagpipers is the first movement of the three-movement Sonatina composed in 1915 (1. Bagpipers, 2. Bear Dance and 3. Finale). The composer said of the piece, ''Originally I planned a group of Romanianf...

An Evening in the Village was composed in 1908 as no. 5 of the Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It has become one of Bartók's favorite works, which the composer himself was fond of playing at recitals. As he ex...