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Early years. Childhood and youth, 1881-99 ; At the Budapest conservatoire, 1899-1903 ; Bartok's nationalism ; Bartok's entry into public life -- Bartok and folk-music. Magyar folk-music ; An element of decadence: Gypsy music ; Collecting folk-music ; Bartok's treatment of folk-songs -- From real to imaginary folk-music. Bartok and impressionism ; Hungarian popular poetry ; Bartok's own testimony ; The search for a synthesis ; Contrapuntal experiments and discoveries ; Bartok's dualism ; Piano compositions, 1908-9 ; Early battles ; Bluebeard's Castle, 1911 ; Further piano compositions, 1912-16 ; Bartok's melodies ; The ballet The Wooden Prince, 1917 ; Second String Quartet, 1915-17 ; Rhythm as an architectural function ; The Wonderful Mandarin, 1919 ; New storms: defeat - revolution - reaction ; Improvisations for piano; Sonatas for Violin and Piano ; Influences on Bartok ; International success ; Bartok as virtuoso ; Bartok's second marriage, 1923 ; Imaginary folk-music, 1923 -- Bartok's achievements in pure music. Third Quartet, 1927, and Fourth Quartet, 1928 ; Cantata Profana, 1930 ; Retreat from chromaticism: the Second Concerto, 1930-31 ; Three masterpieces: 1934-37. Fifth Quartet, 1934 ; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 1936 ; Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, 1937 -- Synthesis of folk-lore elements and classical form. Mikrokosmos ; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1938 ; Bartok in the European crisis ; Divertimento for String Orchestra, 1939 ; Exile ; Sixth String Quartet ; Sonata for Violin, 1943 ; Viola Concerto and Third Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ; Death (26th September, 1945) -- An outline of the elements of Bartok's style. |
