Bela Bartok

The Mikrokosmos is a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written with a didactic purpose. That is to give the piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning and then going on it is graded according to difficulties. The title Mikrokosmos can be interpreted as a series of pieces in many different styles representing a small world. This edition has been written in English French German and Hungarian.

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

The Mikrokosmos is a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written with a didactic purpose. That is to give the piano pieces which can be used from the very beginning and then going on it is graded according to difficulties. The title Mikrokosmos can be interpreted as a series of pieces in many different styles representing a small world. This edition has been written in English French German and Hungarian.

One of Béla Bartók's best-known and most popular works for Piano the Allegro Barbaro was composed in 1910-11. Bartók himself enjoyed performing the piece in concerts and recorded it severaltimes. A recording from 1929 referred to by Bartók as the ?authentic recording? contains very interesting departures from the printed version as far as tempo articulation and even the number of ostinatomeasures are concerned. These elements have been included in the musical text for the first time in this Henle Urtext edition and are clearly annotated. With this first Bartók Urtext edition editor László Somfai offers aninsight into the many and varied musical impulses that will be demonstrated in the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition which will be jointly published by Editio Musica Budapest and G. Henle from 2016.

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 LidiDósa he quizzed her about it and noted it down. This was the beginning of a passion for folk music that would go on to change the course of the composer's life and work. Romanian FolkDances?remains one of Bartók's most popular and enduring works evoking the folk melodies combined with his own idiosyncratic harmonies and textures. Each of the six short pieces here is based on atraditional melody which Bartók?penned during his travels.? Including newly engraved masterpieces?Stick Dance Waistband Dance In One Spot Dance From Butschum Romanian Polkaand Fast Dance this sheet music collection features editorial revisions guided by recordings of Bartók's own performance. The notation also includes fingering guidancethroughout. Romanian Folk Dances also?features a specially-written introduction as well as some fantastic photographs that both tell the story of the young composer and the intriguingbackstory of this work.? One of the most important 20th century composers and along with Liszt one of Hungary's finest musical minds Bartók?held a strong fascination for folkmusic. Through his studies recordings and arrangements he composed some incredible music like these?Romanian Folk Dances ?while simultaneously initiating the field of

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 explained in an American interview it was ''an original composition that is ... with themes of my own invention but ... the themes are in the style of the Hungarian-Transylvanian folk tunes. There are two themes. The first one is a parlando-rubato-rhythm and the second one is more in a dance-like rhythm. The second one is more or less the imitation of a peasant flute playing.'' Bartók also orchestrated the piece in 1931 as no. 1 of HungarianSketches. In 2015 we are launching a series entitled Bartók Transcriptions for Music Students to mark the 70th anniversary of the composer’s death. This involves reissuing our tried publications and publishing some further new transcriptions that fulfill in every respect the strict aesthetic demands of the earlier ones. We trust these publications will allow us to introduce still more music students to the realm of one of the great geniuses of 20th-century music.

La Suite op. 14 en quatre mouvements a été composée en 1916 et figurait parmi les oeuvres pour piano préférées de Bartók. Dans cette oeuvre - contrairement à ses autres compositions de ces années-là - il n'utilisa pas de mélodies populaires ni d'éléments tirés du folklore. Il visait ici au contraire bien plus un nouveau style pianistique plus 'abstrait' et transparent qui renonce à toute ornementation et autres figurations pianistiques. L'édition Henle se distingue par l'Andante supplémentaire publié en annexe qui, à l'origine, devait précéder le Scherzo et qui a été écarté par Bartók peu de temps avant la mise sous presse en 1918. La présente édition Urtext de cette importante oeuvre du répertoire de concert reprend le texte musical de l'intégrale des oeuvres de Bartók. Elle a été confiée à László Somfai, spécialiste mondialement renommé de l'oeuvre de Bartók, qui est également l'auteur de l'exhaustive introduction à l'oeuvre et de précieuses indications pour son interprétation. / Piano

Leichte Klavierstücke Und Tänze. Par BARTOK BELA. Bartók's voluminous output for the piano contains a great many exquisite masterpieces at every level of difficulty. This collection gathers together easy to moderately difficult pieces, including a wide variety of dance forms and folk-music miniatures. Players can coax magical sounds from the instrument using a varied refinement of touch such as silently depressed keys or can even play in two keys at once (bitonality). In addition, all of this provides a stimulus for improvisation. This collection is a welcome addition to the repertoire used in music schools and private lessons and will, of course, appeal to all lovers of Bartók's music. Besides familiar works, it also contains several that have never before been edited. Two pieces handed down as fragments have been judiciously completed by the editor. Care has been taken to provide a spacious engraving and practical page turns. - Easy to moderately difficult pieces with fingering - Ideal for teaching purposes - Several pieces edited for the first time - Spacious engraving with practical page turns / Niveau : Facile / Répertoire / Piano