Bartók's Style by Ernő Lendvai / As reflected in Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Paperback / Akkord Music Publishers 1999 / Bartók Béla hungarian composer

Paperback 1999 

Translators:  Paul Merrick, Judit Pokoly

ISBN: 9789639255005  /  978-9639255005

ISBN-10: 9639255009

PAGES: 185

PUBLISHER: Akkord Music

LANGUAGE: English

A WORD TO THE READER
Please, take into consideration that the discoveries in this book date back to the end of the 1940s, it, however, was published in 1955 only. Those really were hard years in Hungary. The subjects treated in the chapter “Meaning and Polarity” were at that time symptoms of the age.
May-be the today’s reader will smile at the many exclamation marks, or even double exclamation marks! However, they can be regarded as something touching, as proof or outburst of the enthusiastic joy of discovery.
Lendvai’s literary style belongs to an era untouched by the accelerated technological advancements of the 2nd half of 20th century. He could, therefore, afford the luxury of detailed observations in equally detailed sentences.
In the placing of the Figures we have — as far as possible — respected the author's intentions as reflected in the Hungarian original.

Erzsébet Tusa Lendvai

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Erné Lendvai was born in 1925 in Kaposvar, Hungary. He studied at and graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest as a pianist.
His pedagogical and artistic activities encompassed many aspects of music. He served as professor and director at various conservatories of music in Hungary. In addition, he was active as a sound engineer at the Hungarian Broadcasting Corporation, as a musical editor, as well as a conductor and pianist. His exceptional sense of technical sciences and especially of acoustics was well utilized and developed during his activity in broadcasting. Proof of this is his book “Toscanini and Beethoven’, which actually is an analysis — in his expression: a reconstruction — of Symphony No. 7, based on the recorded sound. In his scientific endeavours he thus was never out of touch with live music. This seems to be one of the reasons that his publications effected a great many active musicians, conductors and composers alike.

Béla Viktor János Bartók (/ˈbeɪləˈbɑːrtɒk/; Hungarian: Bartók Béla, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.