Editio Musica Budapest

Bartók taught piano at the Music Academy in Budapest from 1907 to 1934. In his first years as a professor the Budapest music publishers Rozsnyai and Rózsavölgyi commissioned him to prepare so-called i...

Bartók wrote the first dance around the time of the Romanian movements of the 'Seven Sketches', after his first trip collecting Romanian folk music in July-August 1909. The second dance is the fruit o...

Béla Bartók composed his Piano Quintet while at grammar school in Pozsony (Pressburg, now Bratislava), and it still shows the influence of Brahms in its melody and harmony. The work was always resound...

This is one of Bartók's most famous series of piano pieces, whose fame is probably greater than either its popularity with pianists, or the frequency with which it occurs on concert programmes. When i...

The volume entitled Zongorázó ifjúság (Young People at the Piano) published in 1938 is a selection from the series For Children. The first volume contains twelve, the second ten little pieces with or...

The volume entitled Zongorázó ifjúság (Young People at the Piano) published in 1938 is a selection from the series For Children. The first volume contains twelve, the second ten little pieces with or...

Each book in series presents a composer trough a selection of brief pieces. The first volumes help the young pianist to become acquainted with the music of Händel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,...