MIKROKOSMOS 6 PIANO

by Béla Bartók

These pieces comprise a variety of contemporary techniques for piano. Volume 6 1.Free variations 2.Subject & reflection 3.From the dairy of a fly 4.Divided arpeggios 5.Minor seconds, major 7ths 6.Chromatic invention 7.Ostinato 8.March 9.Six dances in Bulgarian rhythm There is a preface an interesting preface plus performance notes by Peter Bartok printed in English, French, German, & Hungarian.

64 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Works, including the music for the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) and Concerto for Orchestra (1943), of Hungarian pianist and composer Béla Bartók combine east European folk with dissonant harmonies.

Since 1920, small childhood hometown of Béla Viktor János Bartók in the kingdom within Austria constituted Sânnicolau Mare or great Saint Nicholas, Romania.

From his mother, he got his first lessons, but from the age of 18 years in 1899, he studied under a protege of the great late Franz Liszt. At the royal academy in Budapest, he met Zoltán Kodály, lifelong friend. Kodály, Claude Debussy of France, Johannes Brahms, and old Magyar melodies influenced Bartók, who met Richard Strauss in 1902. Indeed, Bartók of founded study of ethnomusicology, a passion in which his friend Kodály joined him, studying and incorporating much country into his own.