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Béla Bartók
Biography
Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881, Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary – 26 September 1945, New York) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.
He was appointed professor of piano at the Budapest Academy in 1907, where he did research into the folk music of Hungary and its neighbors. Because of difficult political circumstances, Bartok came to the United States in 1940. His reputation as a pianist and composer were well established, and he traveled extensively, performing on the piano. His final years were spent in ill health and poverty.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/2014)
- Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)
All Wind Works
- Allegro Barbaro (arr. Roman) (1911)
- Allegro Barbaro (arr. Wallace) (1911/1995)
- Bartok Folk Rhapsody (arr. McGinty) (/2004)
- Bartok: Folk Trilogy (arr. McGinty) (1992)
- Bartok for Band (arr. Schaeffer) (/1981)
- Bartok for Children, three pieces (arr. Finlayson) (1909/1966)
- Bartok Sketches
- A Bartok Suite (arr. Clark) (1909/1997)
- Bear Dance (arr. Leidzén) (1909/1931/1955)
- Changing Time (arr. Schaeffer) (1909/1984)
- Children's Album (arr. Gordon) (1909/1957)
- Country Dance (arr. Henderson, Stoutamire) (1976)
- Dance Suite (arr. Suzuki) (1923/2000)
- Dance Suite (arr. Vandenberghe) (1923/)
- Divertimento (arr. Abe) (1939/2015-2017)
- Evening in the Country (arr. Suchoff) (1908/1931/1970)
- Evening in the Village (arr. Leidzén) (1908/1931/1955)
- Folk Song and Dance (arr. McGinty) (1988)
- Folk Song Suite (tr. Erickson) 1909/1968)
- Folk Trilogy (arr. McGinty) (1992)
- For Children (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa) (1909/1945/2-14)
- Four Pieces for Band (arr. Suchoff) (1961)
- Four Sketches (arr. Schaefer) (1908/1963)
- Hungarian Folk Song (arr. Castle) (1975)
- Hungarian Folk Suite (arr. Gordon) (1967)
- In a Quiet Mood (arr. Applebaum) (1909/1972)
- Jocùri Poporale Romanesti (arr. Goto) (1999)
- Little Suite (arr. Lijnschooten)
- Maypole Dance
- The Miraculous Mandarin (arr. Morita) (1918-1924/2017)
- Nocturne (arr. Gardner) (1908/1931/1962)
- Petite Suite (tr. Cushing) (1936/1963)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 (1932)
- Play (arr. Pharmer) (1909/1969)
- Rhapsody for Children (arr. Erickson) (1909/1969)
- Roumanian Folk Dances (arr. Goto). See: Jocùri Poporale Romanesti
- Romanian Folk Dances (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Nakamura) (1915/2017)
- Second Movement from "Streichquartett nr. 2" (arr. Koh) (1915-1917/2006)
- Silly Story (arr. Gordon) (1909/1974)
- Song of the Mountain Horn (arr. La Plante) (2013)
- Suite No. 14 (1916/)
- Swineherd's Dance (arr. Suchoff) (1908/1931/1962)
- Three Bartok Themes (arr. Pharmer) (1971)
- Three Folk Songs (1907/)
- Three Hungarian Songs (arr. Gordon) (1975)
- Three Pieces for Children
- Two Bagatelles for Band (arr. Gardner) (1970)
- Two Pieces (arr. Lijnschooten)
- Two Portraits (arr. Hanna)
- Two Songs and a Dance (arr. Hastings) (1976)
Resources
- Lytle, Stephen. "Song of the Mountain Horn." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 11, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 267-278. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2018.
- Rehrig, William H. (2005). The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Complete CD ROM Edition. Ithaca, NY: The Robert Hoe Foundation.