| Contents |
Perspectives. Bartok and his music in the 1990s / Malcolm Gillies -- The private man / Bela Bartok Jun. -- In his 'Compositional workshop' / Laszlo Somfai -- The ethnomusicologist / Sandor Kovacs -- The pianist / Janos Demeny -- The teacher / Malcolm Gillies -- With his publishers / Adrienne Gombocz -- Piano music. Youthful piano works / Gunter Weiss-Aigner -- 'At last something truly new': bagatelles / Elliott Antokoletz -- Fusion of national styles: piano literature, 1908-11 / Benjamin Suchoff -- Piano works of the war years / Janos Karpati -- Approaching atonality: studies and improvisations / Paul Wilson -- The 'Piano year' of 1926 / Laszlo Somfai -- Synthesis of east and west: Mikrokosmos / Benjamin Suchoff -- Chamber music. Youthful chamber music / Gunter Weiss-Aigner -- Early string quartets / Janos Karpati -- Violin sonatas / Paul Wilson -- Middle-period string quartets / Elliott Antokoletz -- Violin rhapsodies / Vera Lampert -- Violin duos and late string quartets / Malcolm Gillies -- Masterworks (I): music for strings, percussion and celesta / Malcolm Gillies -- Masterworks (II): sonata for two pianos and percussion / Roy Howat -- Final chamber works / Malcolm Gillies -- Music for stage. Opera: Duke Bluebeard's Castle / Gyorgy Kroo -- Ballet: The Wooden Prince / Gyorgy Kroo -- Pantomime: The Miraculous Mandarin / Gyorgy Kroo -- Vocal music. Works for solo voice with piano / Vera Lampert -- Choral works / Miklos Szabo -- Cantata profana / Gyorgy Kroo -- Orchestral music. Youthful orchestral works / Gunter Weiss-Aigner -- Two orchestral suites / Malcolm Gillies -- The 'Lost' violin concerto / Gunter Weiss-Aigner -- Portraits, pictures and pieces / Malcolm Gillies -- Dance suite / Malcolm Gillies -- The first two piano concertos / Janos Karpati -- Second violin concerto / Vera Lampert -- Concerto for orchestra / Elliott Antokoletz -- Final concertos / Sandor Kovacs -- Chronology: Bartok's life and works. |
| Abstract |
This book brings together a selection of scholars to show the range of approaches in circulation at the time the wall between East and West came down. After the introductory chapters, the chief divisions of the volume are drawn according to musical genre--piano, chamber, stage, vocal and orchestral - and internally organized according to chronology of creation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-567) and index. |
| ISBN | 0931340748 |
| ISBN | 0931340756 (pbk) |
