Sonatina
Piano
by Bela Bartok
Piano Solo - Sheet Music

Piano

SKU: HL.50511471

Piano. Composed by Bela Bartok. EMB. Classical. Book Only. Composed 1952. 9 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #Z117. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50511471).

ISBN 9790080001172. UPC: 073999162110. 9.0x12.0x0.064 inches. Hungarian, English, German.

In Bartok's career the period between 1910 and 1914 was devoted to intensive folk song collecting work. In those years his attention was focussed principally on Romanian folk music (in 1913 he published, for example, the Bihar collection and most of the Maramaros collection: in March 1913 in just two weeks he recorded 209 songs). The inspiration gained from his collecting journeys in Romania first appeared in the vocal folk song arrangements he composed in 1915, and in the smaller-scale, moderately difficult piano series based on Romanian folk music material, the Romanian Folk Dances, Kolindak and the Sonatina. In the three movements of the Sonatina ('Pipers', 'Bears' Dance' and'Finale') Bartok used altogether five original Romanian melodies. In 1931 he made an orchestral arrangement of this exceptionally popular work and entitled it Transylvanian Dances.

(Hungaroton HCD 31604).