Bela Bartók
By: David Cooper
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780300148770
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Composers; Biography
Description: Traces Bartok's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and composer, teacher, and pianist, while also providing a detailed discussion of most of his works. Further, the author explores how Europe's political and cultural tumult affected Bartok's work, travel, and reluctant emigration to the safety of America in his final years.
Notes: "List of works": pages 382-391.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-416) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Sweet was my mother's milk' : 1881-1902; title: 'Now I came from the battlefield' : 1903-1904; title: 'Two roads are before me' : 1905-1906; title: 'Because my love has forsaken me' : 1907-1909; title: 'Crossing the borders of Transylvania' : 1910-1913; title: 'To plough in winter is hard work' : 1914-1918; title: 'The time to rove has come' : 1919-1925; title: 'The forest rustles, the fields rustle' : 1925-1928; title: 'The wreath is wound around me' : 1929-1935; title: 'Stars, stars, brightly shine' : 1936-1938; title: 'From here is seen the graveyard's border' : 1939-1942; title: 'I see the beautiful sky' : 1942-1945; title: Postlude.