Bartók and his world

Bartók and his world / edited by Peter Laki.

The main goal of this volume is to provide English-speaking audiences with new insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary. Part I begins with an essay by Leon Botstein that places Bartok in a large historical and cultural context. Lászlo Somfai reports on the catal...

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Other Authors: Laki, Peter (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Series:Bard Music Festival series.
Subjects:
Bartók, Béla, > 1881-1945.
Bartók, Béla
Bartók, Béla, > 1881-1945.
Composers > Hungary > 20th century > Biography.
Music
Hungary
Table of Contents:
  • Out of Hungary : Bartók, modernism, and the cultural politics of twentieth-century music / Leon Botstein
  • Why is a Bartók thematic catalog sorely needed? / Laszlo Somfai
  • The gallows and the altar : poetic criticism and critical poetry about Bartók in Hungary / Peter Laki
  • Bartók's reception in America, 1940-1945 / Tibor Tallián ; translated by P. Laki
  • Bluebeard as theater : the influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard drama / Carl Leafstedt
  • The miraculous mandarin : Melchior Lengyel, his pantomime, and his connections to Béla Bartók / Vera Lampert
  • Bartók and Stravinsky : respect, competition, influence, and the Hungarian reaction to modernism in the 1920's / David E. Schneider
  • Travel reports from three continents : a selection of letters from Bela Bartok / translated by Peter Laki
  • Béla Bartó k: an interview by Dezső Kosztolányi / translated by David E. Schneider
  • A conversation with Béla Bartók / translated by David E. Schneider and Klára Móricz
  • Recollections of Béla Bartók / translated by Peter Laki and Balázs Dibuz
  • A change in style / Edwin Von Der Nüll ; translated by S. Gillespie
  • Bartok's Third string quartet / Theodor Adorno ; translated by S. Gillespie
  • Bartók's foreign tour / Aladár Tóth ; translated by David E. Schneider and Klára Móricz
  • Two Bartók obituaries / Bence Szabolcsi ; translated by Peter Laki
  • A selection of poems inspired by Béla Bartók / translated by Peter Laki and Claire Lashley.

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