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Béla Bartók

Notable works by Béla Bartók.

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14 Bagatelles

14 Bagatelles, Sz.38, BB 50; 3rd Set, Op. 6 () is a set of pieces for solo piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, written in the spring of 1908 and first performed by the composer June 29, 1908, in

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44 Duos for Two Violins

44 Duos for Two Violins (sometimes also entitled 44 Duets), Sz. 98, BB 104 is a series of duets composed in 1931 by Hungarian composer Béla

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Allegro barbaro (Bartók)

Allegro barbaro, BB 63 (Sz. 49), composed in 1911, is one of Béla Bartók's most famous and frequently performed solo piano pieces. The composition is typical of Bartók's style, utilizing folk

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Bluebeard's Castle

Duke Bluebeard's Castle (, literally The Blue-Bearded Duke's Castle) is a one-act Symbolist opera by Béla Bartók to a Hungarian libretto by poet Béla Balázs. Bartók's only opera, it is based on the

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Cantata profana

Cantata profana (subtitled A kilenc csodaszarvas The Nine Enchanted Stags , Sz. 94) is a work for tenor, baritone, double mixed chorus and orchestra by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Completed

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Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)

The Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123, is a five-movement orchestral work composed by Béla Bartók in 1943. It is one of his best-known, most popular, and most accessible works. The score is

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Contrasts (Bartók)

Contrasts (Sz. 111, BB 116) is a 1938 composition scored for clarinet–violin–piano trio by Béla Bartók (1881–1945). It is based on Hungarian and Romanian dance melodies and has three movements with a

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Dance Suite (Bartók)

Dance Suite (; ), Sz. 77, BB 86a, is a well-known 1923 orchestral work by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The composer produced a reduction for piano (Sz. 77, BB 86b) in 1925, though this is less

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Divertimento for String Orchestra (Bartók)

Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz.113 BB.118 is a three-movement work composed by Béla Bartók in 1939, scored for full orchestral strings. Paul Sacher, a Swiss conductor, patron, impresario, and

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Eight Hungarian Folksongs

Eight Hungarian Folksongs, Sz. 64, BB 47 () is a song cycle for high voice and piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed between 1907 and

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Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs

Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20, Sz. 74, BB 83, also known as Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs or simply as Improvisations, is a composition for solo piano by

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Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs

Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71, BB 79 is a collection of short folk melodies arranged for piano by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed between 1914 and 1918. In 1933, Bartók

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Five Hungarian Folksongs (Bartók)

Five Hungarian Folksongs, Sz. 33, BB 97 (), is an arrangement by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók completed around 1928 of selected songs from a previous set entitled Ten Hungarian Folksongs, Sz. 33,

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Five Songs, Op. 15 (Bartók)

Five Songs, Op. 15, Sz. 61, BB 71 (, ) is an early song cycle for voice and piano written in 1916 by Hungarian composer Béla

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For Children

For Children (Hungarian: ) is a set of short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1908 and 1909; 85 pieces were originally issued in four volumes. Each piece is based on a folk tune: Hungarian in

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Four Dirges

Four Dirges, Op. 9a, Sz. 45, BB 58 () is a short collection of dirges by Hungarian composer Béla

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Homage to Paderewski

Homage to Paderewski is an album of piano pieces by 17 composers, published in 1942 in honour of the Polish pianist, composer and statesman Ignacy Jan

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Hungarian folksongs for voice and piano (Bartók)

Magyar népdalok énekhangra és zongorára (English: Hungarian folk songs for voice and piano) is a collection of Hungarian folk song arrangements by Béla Bartók. Bartók's Hungarian Folksongs are now

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Hungarian Pictures

Hungarian Pictures, sometimes also referred to as Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97, BB 103 () is a suite for orchestra by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók finished in 1931. The suite consists of

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Kossuth (Bartók)

Kossuth, Sz. 21, BB. 31, DD. 75a is a symphonic poem composed by Béla Bartók inspired by the Hungarian politician Lajos

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Mikrokosmos (Bartók)

Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos () Sz. 107, BB 105 consists of 153 progressive piano pieces in six volumes, written between 1926 and 1939 and published in 1940. The individual pieces progress from very

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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114 is one of the best-known compositions by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Commissioned by Paul Sacher to celebrate the tenth anniversary

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Night music (Bartók)

Night music is a musical style of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók that he used mostly in slow movements of multi-movement ensemble or orchestra compositions in his mature period. It is

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Nine Little Piano Pieces

Nine Little Piano Pieces, Sz. 82, BB 90 () is a collection of short pieces for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was completed in

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Out of Doors (Bartók)

Out of Doors is a set of five piano solo pieces, Sz. 81, BB 89, written by Béla Bartók in 1926. Out of Doors (Hungarian: , German: , French: ) is among the very few instrumental compositions by

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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)

The Piano Concerto No. 1, Sz. 83, BB 91 of Béla Bartók was composed in 1926. Average playing time is between 23 and 24

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Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101 of Béla Bartók is a musical composition for piano and orchestra. The work, which was composed between 1930 and 1931, is notorious for being one of

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Bartók)

The Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127 of Béla Bartók is a musical composition for piano and orchestra. The work was composed in 1945 during the final months of his life, as a surprise

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Rhapsody No. 1 (Bartók)

Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 86, 87, and 88, BB 94 is the first of two virtuoso works for violin and piano, written by Béla Bartók in 1928 and subsequently arranged in 1929 for violin and orchestra, as well

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Rhapsody No. 2 (Bartók)

Rhapsody No. 2, Sz. 89 and 90, BB 96, is the second of two virtuoso works for violin and piano, subsequently arranged with orchestra accompaniment, written by Béla Bartók. It was composed in 1928 and

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Rhapsody, Op. 1 (Bartók)

Rhapsody, Op. 1, Sz. 26, BB 36, is a composition for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was finished in 1904. A year later, he wrote a version for piano and orchestra. The catalogue number

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Romanian Christmas Carols

Romanian Christmas Carols, Sz, 57, BB 67 () is a set of little colinde, typical Christmas songs from Romanian villages, habitually sung by small groups of children, adapted in 1915 by Hungarian

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Romanian Folk Dances

Romanian Folk Dances (, ), (, ), Sz. 56, BB 68 is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915. He later orchestrated it for small ensemble in 1917 as Sz. 68, BB 76. It is based

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Slovakian Dance

Slovakian Dance As this is one of the sketches that he dismissed, there is no identification number for this composition, and most catalogues do not include

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Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók)

The Sonata for Solo Violin Sz. 117, BB 124, is a sonata for unaccompanied violin composed by Béla Bartók. It was premiered by Yehudi Menuhin, to whom it was dedicated, in New York on 26 November

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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

The Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115, is a musical piece written by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in 1937. The sonata was premiered by Bartók and his second wife, Ditta

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Sonatina (Bartók)

Sonatina, Sz. 55, BB. 69 is a piece for solo piano written in 1915 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Initially entitled Sonatina on Romanian folk tunes, it is based on folk tunes Bartók collected in

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String Quartet No. 1 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 1 in A minor by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was completed in 1909. The score is dated January 27 of that year. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The piece was

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String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 2 in A minor by Béla Bartók was written between 1915 and October 1917 in Rákoskeresztúr in Hungary. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The work is in three movements:

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String Quartet No. 3 (Bartók)

String Quartet No. 3 by Béla Bartók was written in September 1927 in Budapest. It is one of six string quartets by Bartók. The work is dedicated to the Musical Society Fund of Philadelphia and was

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String Quartet No. 4 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 4 in C major by Béla Bartók was written from July to September 1928 in Budapest. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The work is dedicated to the Pro Arte Quartet but

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String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102, BB 110 by Béla Bartók was written between 6 August and 6 September 1934. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The work was commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague

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String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Sz. 114, BB 119, was the final string quartet Hungarian composer Béla Bartók wrote before his death in 1945. The composition of the piece came at a very

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Suite, Op. 14 (Bartók)

The Suite, Op. 14, Sz. 62, BB 70 is a piece for solo piano written by Béla Bartók. It was written in February 1916, published in 1918, and debuted by the composer on April 21, 1919, in Budapest. The

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Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók)

Ten Easy Pieces, Sz. 39, BB 51 () is a collection of short pieces for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed in

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The Barbarian (song)

"The Barbarian" is the opening track on the eponymous debut album of British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in

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The Miraculous Mandarin

The Miraculous Mandarin (, ; ) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918 and 1924, and based on the 1916 story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered on 27

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The Wooden Prince

The Wooden Prince (), Op. 13, Sz. 60, is a one-act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók in 1914–1916 (orchestrated 1916–1917) to a scenario by Béla Balázs. It was first performed at the Budapest

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Three Burlesques

Three Burlesques, Op. 8c, Sz. 47, BB 55 () is a set of burlesques for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed between 1908 and

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Three Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes

Three Rondos on Slovak Folk Tunes, Sz. 84, BB 92 (), also referred to as Three Rondos on Folk Tunes, is a collection of three small pieces for piano by Hungarian composer Béla

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Twenty Hungarian Folksongs

Twenty Hungarian Folksongs (), Sz. 92, BB 98, is the last cycle of folksongs for voice and piano by Hungarian composer Béla

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Two Romanian Dances

Two Romanian Dances (Hungarian: 'Két román tánc'), Op. 8a, Sz. 43, is a set of piano compositions by Béla Bartók, based on Romanian traditional music. Written in 1910, they date from the beginning of

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Village Scenes

Village Scenes, Sz. 78, BB 87a, also known as Falun, Dedinské scény, or its German title, Dorfszenen, is a collection of Slovak folk songs for female voice and piano by Hungarian composer Béla

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Viola Concerto (Bartók)

The Viola Concerto, Sz. 120, BB 128 (also known as Concerto for Viola and Orchestra) was one of the last pieces Béla Bartók wrote. He began composing it while living in Saranac Lake, New York, in

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Violin Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)

Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36, BB 48a was written in the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, 11 years after the composer's death, as "Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. posth." It was

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Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)

Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, Sz. 112, BB 117 was written in 1937–38. During the composer's life, it was known simply as his Violin Concerto. His other violin concerto, Violin Concerto No. 1,

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