Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, composed in summer 1937 on a commission from Paul Sacher and premièred in Basel in January 1938, is incontestably one of the supreme creations of mo...

From the '44 Duos for two violins' In this album, the experienced flutist, saxophonist and composer Marcin Langer offers 20 arrangements of Bartók’s miniatures '44 Duos for two violins'. The difficult...

The Boosey & Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy.Bartók for Clarinet fe...

The Boosey & Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. The Romanian Folk Dan...

Béla Bartók (1881-1945) composed his 44 Duos for Two Violins in 1931. These unique musical miniatures combine folk melodies from Eastern Europe with the musical language of the twentieth century in an...

The Boosey & Hawkes Bartók Edition showcases brand new stylish arrangements of highlights from the leading twentieth century composer for developing musicians to learn and enjoy. The Romanian Folk Dan...

Prepared from the composer's original manuscript

1936 erhielt Béla Bartók von seinem Schweizer Mäzen Paul Sacher den Kompositionsauftrag zur "Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug und Celesta". Bartók gelang dabei eines der großen Meisterwerke des...

In the early 1930s, Bartók resolved to compose some orchestra pieces which would be easy to play and thus could be performed more often than his other demanding, musically and technically difficult sc...

The 'Romanian Folk Dances' undoubtedly rank amongst Bartók's most popular compositions. The earliest version is scored for piano (1915) and was published by Universal Edition in 1918. The composer him...

I sei quartetti per archi di Béla Bartók, scritti tra il 1908 e il 1940, sono tra le pietre miliari del genere nel XX secolo. Dal punto di vista biografico, il primo quartetto è strettamente legato al...

Il secondo quartetto per archi di Bartók fu scritto con grandi interruzioni tra il 1915 e il 1918, dopo che per diversi anni si era dedicato quasi esclusivamente alla raccolta di musica popolare. Il f...

Il terzo è il più breve dei sei quartetti di Béla Bartók ed è stato composto in un tempo straordinariamente breve: Bartók scrisse la partitura nel settembre del 1927, che gli valse il primo premio di...

Prima ancora che il suo terzo Quartetto per archi venisse dato alle stampe nel 1929, Bartók stava già lavorando al quarto nell'estate del 1928. L'opera, in cinque movimenti, è disposta simmetricamente...

Il più lungo e allo stesso tempo il più complesso dei sei quartetti per archi di Bartók fu composto nell'estate del 1934 come commissione ben finanziata per la rinomata Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge Foun...

Bartók iniziò a lavorare al suo Sesto Quartetto per archi nell'estate del 1939, ospite di Paul Sacher nell'idilliaco villaggio montano svizzero di Saanen, prima che l'imminente scoppio della guerra lo...

(parts only unless otherwise specified)

This revised edition was prepared after comparison of the last printed edition with all known manuscript sources. These included a sketch of the work, its final manuscript, a duplicate of this with so...

Bela Bartók's 44 Violin Duos, or selections therefrom, have been the source of arrangements for a variety of instruments, such as for piano (one set by the composer, the Petite Suite), band, as well a...

The following manuscript sources are available to be referred to in preparing the revised edition: 1. Sketches, with part of the second movement in two versions; 2. A fair copy of the second movement...

This revised edition was prepared after comparison of all manuscript sources that could be found with the last printed edition. The sources included the first sketch, two full score manuscripts (one p...

This revised edition was prepared following comparison of the previously printed edition with the surviving manuscript sources. The following sources are available for inspection: The sketch of the wo...