String Orchestra and
Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ6338
Composed
by Bela Bartok. Set
(Score & Parts). Composed
1970. 304 pages. Editio
Musica Budapest
#EMBZ6338. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ6338).
Béla
Bartók composed his
Piano Quintet while at
grammar school in Pozsony
(Pressburg, now
Bratislava), and it still
shows the influence of
Brahms in its melody and
harmony. The work was
always resoundingly
successful at his
youthful concerts. When
on 7 January 1921 the
Waldbauer Quartet wanted
to repeat the programme
of a concert given ten
years previously,
Bartók was displeased
that this early work of
his should be performed
once again. Finally he
consented to the
performance, and played
the piano part himself.
The quintet was greeted
with tumults of applause,
unlike the other pieces
on the programme, which
were written later.
According to a
communication by Márta
Ziegler,Bartók threw
away the score in anger,
and for many years it was
believed to have been
destroyed. In 1963, the
editor Denijs Dille
received a package inside
which were the score and
parts, which had been
thought lost. Denijs
Dille wrote: 'In
preparing the text of
this edition for
practical purposes, I
used the autograph score,
and Bartók's own
handwritten parts for the
first and second violins,
viola, and cello. [...]
Bartók made so many
deletions and significant
changes in the score that
the resulting version was
somewhat different from
the original. In this
edition we give the last
version, supplemented
with the minor changes
and signs that can be
found in the string
parts.'.
