Bartók: Bagpipers / oboe and piano
| Publisher | EDITIO MUSICA BUDAPEST |
| Genre: | classical & sacret |
| Arrangement: | melody / piano |
| Cast: | solo |
| Difficulty: | Intermediate |
| Format: | sheet music |
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| Product code: | Z2589 |
| Composer: | Bartók, Béla |
| No. of songs: | 1 |
| Pages: | 7 |
| Language: |
English
German Hungarian |
| Size: | 23 x 30 cm |
| ISMN: | 9790080025895 |
| Weight: | 70 g |
Songlist (1)
- Bagpipers
Product description
Bagpipers is the first movement of the three-movement Sonatina composed in 1915 (1. Bagpipers, 2.Bear Dance and 3. Finale). The composer said of the piece, ''Originally I planned a group of Romanianfolk dances for piano. I selected three parts of this and called it Sonatina. The first movement, Bagpipers consists of two dances played by two bagpipers.'' The piece is based on a couple dance fromTransylvania, the ardeleana (also known as the kanászos), while the middle section was inspired bythe bagpipe playing of a middle-aged man recorded by Bartók in Váncsfalva (now Oncesti) of Bihar County during February 1910. In 1931, Bartók arranged it for symphony orchestra under the title Dances from Transylvania. This arrangement for oboe and piano was made by Liszt Prize-winningoboist Tibor Szeszler (1919-1992).
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), full name Béla Viktor János Bartók, was a Hungarian composer, pianist and and music scientist. He emigrated to the USA in 1940 because of his opposition to Hungarian fascism. Together with Leoš Janáček and Zoltán Kodály, he is one of the composers whose significant source of inspiration was folk music. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century.
