Editio Musica Budapest

These short pieces were written as Christmas presents for various young members of a family Mendelssohn and his wife stayed with on their visit to London in 1842. Tuneful and well contrasted, they for...

Die zwei Klavierstücke mit dem Titel …ägyptisches Paar auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte… wurden von einer Statue inspiriert, die in der ägyptischen Sammlung des Louvre in Paris zu sehen ist. Das lebensgroße...

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who was his student in earlier years and who, throughout his entire life...

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who was his student in earlier years and who, throughout his entire life...

The Ten Easy Pieces - with a 'Dedication' as an eleventh - are a complement to the Bagatelles. The former were written with pedagogical purposes, that is, to supply piano students with easy contempora...

The Two Elegies are typified by Romantically exuberant, orchestral and full piano writing. Elegy No. 1 was written in February 1908. The ternary reprise form is concealed by the voices in Bartók's var...

In der beim Budapester Musikverlag Rózsavölgyi & Co. erschienenen Reihe Az elemi zongorajáték gyakorlati tananyaga [Praktischer Lehrstoff des elementaren Klavierspiels] wurde 1916 eine aus 12 Stu cken...

Bartók taught piano at the Music Academy in Budapest from 1907 to 1934. In his first years as a professor the Budapest music publishers Rozsnyai and Rózsavölgyi commissioned him to prepare so-called i...

Bartók wrote the first dance around the time of the Romanian movements of the 'Seven Sketches', after his first trip collecting Romanian folk music in July-August 1909. The second dance is the fruit o...