Bartók and his world / edited by Peter Laki.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1995.
Description
ix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      Series
      Bard Music Festival series [More in this series]
      Summary note
      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 catalog of Bartók's works that is currently in progress. Peter Laki shows the extremes of the composer's reception in Hungary, while Tibor Tallián surveys the often mixed reviews from the American years. The essays of Carl Leafstedt and Vera Lampert deal with his librettists Bela Balázs and Melchior Lengyel respectively. David Schneider addresses the artistic relationship between Bartók and Stravinsky. Most of the letters and interviews in Part II concern Bartók's travels and emigration as they reflected on his personal life and artistic evolution. Part III presents early critical assessments of Bartók's work as well as literary and poetic responses to his music and personality.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Out of Hungary: Bartok, modernism, and the cultural politics of twentieth-century music / Leon Botstein
      • Why is a Bartok thematic catalog sorely needed? / Laszlo Somfai
      • The gallows and the altar: poetic criticism and critical poetry about Bartok in Hungary / Peter Laki
      • Bartok's reception in America, 1940-1945 / Tibor Tallian 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 Bela Bartok / Vera Lampert
      • Bartok 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
      • Bela Bartok: an interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi / Translated by David E. Schneider
      • A conversation with Bela Bartok / Translated by David E. Schneider and Klara Moricz
      • Recollections of Bela Bartok / Translated by Peter Laki and Balazs Dibuz
      • A change in style / Edwin Von Der Null translated by S. Gillespie
      • Bartok's Third String quartet / Theodor Adorno translated by S. Gillespie
      • Bartok's foreign tour / Aladar Toth translated by D. Schneider and K. Moricz
      • Two Bartok obituaries / Bence Szabolcsi translated by P. Laki
      • A selection of poems inspired by Bela Bartok / Translated by Peter Laki and Claire Lashley.
      ISBN
      • 0691006342 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780691006345 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
      • 0691006334 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780691006338 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      95013368
      OCLC
      32780914
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