Allegro barbaro. [Solo piano]
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- Wien–Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 5904], 1922
Wien–Leipzig: Universal Edition A.G. [PN U.E. 5904], 1922. Quarto. Publisher's dark ivory wrappers printed in green. [i] (publisher's catalogue of Bartók piano compositions), 7, [i] (blank) pp.
Parisian dealer's handstamps to foot of upper wrapper.
Slightly worn; browned; partially split at spine; signature detached. Later issue from plates of the first edition. Szabolcsi 49.
Bartók was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and pianist. "He is now considered, along with Liszt, to be his country’s greatest composer, and, with Kodály and Dohnányi, a founding figure of 20th-century Hungarian musical culture. ...
In the first half of 1910 Bartók’s recognition as a composer appeared to be growing, and with it requests for him to perform. At a ‘Hungarian festival’ concert in Paris on 12 March 1910 he played several of his own works, as well as pieces by Szendy and Kodály. A press comment about these ‘young barbarians’ from Hungary probably prompted Bartók to write one of his most popular piano pieces, the Allegro barbaro bb63, in the following year." Malcolm Gillies in Grove Music Online.
Parisian dealer's handstamps to foot of upper wrapper.
Slightly worn; browned; partially split at spine; signature detached. Later issue from plates of the first edition. Szabolcsi 49.
Bartók was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and pianist. "He is now considered, along with Liszt, to be his country’s greatest composer, and, with Kodály and Dohnányi, a founding figure of 20th-century Hungarian musical culture. ...
In the first half of 1910 Bartók’s recognition as a composer appeared to be growing, and with it requests for him to perform. At a ‘Hungarian festival’ concert in Paris on 12 March 1910 he played several of his own works, as well as pieces by Szendy and Kodály. A press comment about these ‘young barbarians’ from Hungary probably prompted Bartók to write one of his most popular piano pieces, the Allegro barbaro bb63, in the following year." Malcolm Gillies in Grove Music Online.