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Bartók Béla: Four Pieces for Piano

Category: Piano
Period: 20th Century
Extent: 36 pages
Format: 23,5 x 31 cm (K/4)
Weight: 0.135 kg
Publication: 1956
Publisher: Editio Musica Budapest Zeneműkiadó
Catalogue number: 2335
ISMN: 9790080023358
The 'Four Piano Pieces' (1. Study for the Left Hand, 2. Fantasy I, 3. Fantasy II, 4. Scherzo) was composed between January and October 1903. 'The 'Study for the Left Hand' is a large-scale sonata movement. The eclecticism of 'Fantasy I' composed on 8 February is well illustrated by the fact that his contemporary audience associated it with several composers' styles. The [piece] is dedicated 'to Madame Emma Gruber'.The 'Fantasy II' was written after the symphonic poem Kossuth was finished, in October 1903 in Berlin. It is a piece of Hungarian mood, which Bartók dedicated to his childhood friends 'Misses Emsy and Irmy Jurkovics'. The extraordinary 'Scherzo' that concludes the series is dedicated to Dohnányi. The repeated appearance of grotesque turns of phrase conjures up Liszt's 'scherzo diabolique' type.'
(HCD 32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh)

Contents

1.
Bartók Béla: Study for Left Hand
2.
Bartók Béla: I. Fantasia
3.
Bartók Béla: II. Fantasia
4.
Bartók Béla: Scherzo

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