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List Of Compositions By Béla Bartók
This aspires to be a complete list of compositions by Béla Bartók. The catalogue numbering by András Szőllősy (Sz.), László Somfai (BB) and Denijs Dille (DD) are provided, as well as Bartók's own opus numbers. Note that Bartók started three times anew with opus numbers, here indicated with "(list 1)", "(list 2)" and "(list 3)" respectively. The pieces from the third listing are by far best known; opus lists 1 and 2 are early works. The year of composition and instrumentation (including voice) are included. See the main article on Béla Bartók for more details. Catalogue numberings, year of composition and instrumentation By type This is a near complete list of compositions by Béla Bartók. Both the more common András Szőllősy catalogue numbering (Sz.) and the more recent László Somfai catalogue number (BB.) are provided. Where compositions do not have a Sz. numbering, the intermediate Denijs Dille catalogue numbering (DD.) has been provided. See the main arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard's Castle
''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' (, literally ''The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle'') is a one-act Symbolism (movement), Symbolist opera by composer Béla Bartók to a Hungarian libretto by his friend and poet Béla Balázs. Based on the French folk legend, or ''conte populaire'', as told by Charles Perrault, it lasts about an hour and deploys just two singing characters: Bluebeard () and his newest wife Judith (); the two have just eloped and she is coming home to his castle for the first time. ''Bluebeard's Castle'', András Szőllősy, Sz. 48, was composed in 1911 (with modifications made in 1912 and a new ending added in 1917) and first performed on 24 May 1918 at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest. Universal Edition published the vocal (1921) and full score (1925). The Boosey & Hawkes full score includes only the German and English singing translations while the Dover edition reproduces the Universal Edition Hungarian/German vocal score (with page numbers beginning at 1 inste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Scenes
''Village Scenes'', Sz. 78, BB 87a, also known as ''Falun'', ''Dedinské scény'', or its German title, ''Dorfszenen'', is a collection of Slovak folk songs for female voice and piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was completed in 1924. Background Bartók, a composer primarily known for collecting and arranging folk music from central and eastern Europe, wrote this set of folk songs while on a project and journey around Europe that spanned several decades, starting around the 1900s. The folk tunes were collected in and around the Zólyom County area, which is in modern-day Slovakia, around 1915–6. It was finished in December 1924 in Budapest and dedicated to his second wife, Ditta. It was engraved and published under Universal Edition some years later, in 1927, along with many other song collections made in earlier years. It then faded into obscurity until Béla's son, Peter Bartók, revised and republished the piece in 1994, by examining both the published versio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Suite (Bartók)
''Dance Suite'' (; ), Sz. 77, BB 86a, is a well-known 1923 orchestral work by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The composer produced a reduction for piano (Sz. 77, BB 86b) in 1925, though this is less commonly performed. Composition Béla Bartók composed the ''Dance Suite'' in 1923 in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of the cities Buda and Pest, to form the Hungarian capital Budapest. Then, after its great success, the director of Universal Edition, Emil Hertzka, commissioned from him an arrangement for piano, which was published in 1925. However, he never publicly performed this arrangement, and it was premiered in March 1945, a few months before his death, by his friend György Sándor. Structure This suite has six movements, even though some recordings conceive it as one single full-length movement. A typical performance of the whole work would last approximately fifteen minutes. This work consists of five dances with Arabic, Wallachian and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eight Improvisations On Hungarian Peasant Songs
''Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs'', Op. 20, Sz. 74, BB 83, also known as ''Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs'' or simply as ''Improvisations'', is a composition for solo piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was finished in 1920. Composition This composition is the last one on which Bartók put an Opus number because henceforth he would treat his folk music and his more artistic side as equal. However, this work is far from his folk pieces, with its abrasive harmonies and rhythms. Structure This composition has eight movements: The first movement, ''Molto moderato'', the original melody is repeated three times without not much variation and a coda at the end. The mode of this melody comes from the Dorian mode scale on C, but the accompaniment plays unrelated triad chords, all of them derived from melody notes. In the second movement, ''Molto capriccioso'', the main melody is repeated also three times, but here, even though it shares its Dorian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Miraculous Mandarin
''The Miraculous Mandarin'' (, ; ) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918 and 1924, and based on the 1916 story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered on 27 November 1926 conducted by Eugen Szenkar at the Cologne Opera, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds. Although more successful at its Prague premiere, it was generally performed during the rest of Bartók's life in the form of a concert suite, which preserves about two-thirds of the original pantomime's music. Synopsis # Beginning—Curtain rises # First seduction game # Second seduction game # Third seduction game—the Mandarin enters # Dance of the girl # The chase—the tramps leap out # Suddenly the Mandarin's head appears # The Mandarin falls to the floor After an orchestral introduction depicting the chaos of the big city, the action begins in a room belonging to three tramps. They search their pockets and drawers for money, but fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs
''Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs'', Sz. 71, BB 79 is a collection of short folk melodies arranged for piano by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed between 1914 and 1918. In 1933, Bartók adapted and orchestrated parts of the piece as ''Hungarian Peasant Songs'', Sz. 100, BB 107, commonly known by its Hungarian name, (). Structure The collection consists of fifteen movements, some of which are grouped together. A typical performance lasts 13–15 minutes. The movement list is as follows: :''Four Old Tunes'' : :''Old Dance Tunes'' : Some critics claim Bartók intended the work to be split into two parts: the first one would include the first six movements, and the second one would include the following nine movements. However, such division is not present in the original score. Orchestral version In 1933, Bartók adapted and orchestrated movements 6-15 of the piano version of the piece as ''Hungarian Peasant Songs'', Sz. 100, BB 107. While this version cut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Hungarian Folktunes
''Three Hungarian Folksongs'', Sz. 66, BB 80b () is a collection of folksongs for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed between 1914 and 1918. Composition While there is some speculation about its exact date of composition, some of the most reliable sources suggest it was written between 1914 and 1918, in a period when Bartók was deeply fascinated by folk music from Romania and his native Hungary. Many of the small compositions he wrote when collecting folk music all around these countries were either lost or revamped into later works, and some would never see the light of publication. This set was presumably revised three decades later, between 1941 and 1942. After moving to the United States, Bartók lived in near-poverty, due to the limited income generated by his music. However, one of his main sources of income was to publish old manuscripts. The set was published by Boosey & Hawkes Boosey & Hawkes is a British Music publisher (sheet music), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Songs, Op
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The Wooden Prince
''The Wooden Prince'' (), Op. 13, Sz. 60, is a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók in 1914–1916 (orchestrated 1916–1917) to a scenario by Béla Balázs. It was first performed at the Budapest Opera on 12 May 1917 under the conductor Egisto Tango. The work ''The Wooden Prince'' has never achieved the fame of Bartók's other ballet, ''The Miraculous Mandarin'' (1926) but it was enough of a success at its premiere to prompt the Opera House to stage Bartók's opera, '' Bluebeard's Castle'' (which had not been performed since 1911) in the following year. Like ''Bluebeard'', ''The Wooden Prince'' uses a huge orchestra (it even includes saxophones), though the critic Paul Griffiths believes it sounds like an earlier work in style (Griffiths p. 71). The music shows the influence of Debussy and Richard Strauss, as well as Wagner (the introduction echoes the prelude of ''Das Rheingold''). Bartók used a scenario by the poet Béla Balázs, which had appeared in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Christmas Carols
''Romanian Christmas Carols'', Sz, 57, BB 67 () is a set of little colinde, typical Christmas songs from Romanian villages, habitually sung by small groups of children, adapted in 1915 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók to be played on the piano after hearing them sung in the below villages. Structure This work consists of twenty little songs put together into two major series. The movements are listed as follows: Series A Series B The movement numbered XVIIb is generally appended to the previous one, and, in publications, the variation is represented as a single movement, even though it is clearly specified where the reprise begins. Bartók also wrote a concert version with slight variations to the original version. These changes consist mostly of denser chords and octave In music, an octave (: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is an interval between two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other. The octave relationship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
