Bartók and His World /

Bartók and His World / / ed. by Peter Laki.

Béla Bartók, who died in New York fifty years ago this September, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a rapidly growing critical and analytical literature. Bartók was born in Hungary and made his home there for all but his last five years, w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Adorno, Theodor,
Botstein, Leon,
Csoóri, Sándor,
Devecseri, Gábor,
Illyés, Gyula,
Kassák, Lajos,
Károlyi, Amy,
Képes, Géza,
Laki, Peter,
Lampert, Vera,
Leafstedt, Carl,
Nüll, Edwin von der,
Schneider, David E.,
Somfai, László,
Somlyó, György,
Szabolcsi, Bence,
Tallián, Tibor,
Tόth, Aladár,
Tόth, Néeéva Oláh,
Voit, Pál,
HerausgeberIn:
Laki, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1996
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.) :; 6 halftones, 13 music exs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Essays
  • Out of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music
  • Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?
  • The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary
  • Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945
  • Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama
  • The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok
  • Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s
  • Part II. Writings bt Bartόk
  • Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Béla Bartόk
  • Béla Bartόk: An Interview by Dezső Kosztolányi
  • A Conversation with Béla Bartόk
  • Part III. Writings About Bartόk
  • Recollections of Béla Bartόk
  • A Change in Style
  • Bartόk's Third String Quartet
  • Bartόk's Foreign Tour
  • Two Bartόk Obituaries
  • A Selection of Poems Inspired by Béla Bartόk
  • Cantata profana
  • With Thundering Steps: Listening to BartόK's Second Piano Concerto
  • Joy
  • Béla Bartόk
  • Bartόk's String Quartet No. 5
  • Bartόk's Farewell
  • Bartόk's Homecoming
  • Bartόk
  • Index of Names and Compositions
  • List of Contributors

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