Oboe and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ2589
Composed
by Bela Bartok. EMB Music
of Bela Bartok. Book
Only. Composed 1958. 10
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ2589.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ2589).
English-German.
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
orchestraunder the title
Dances from Transylvania.
This arrangement for oboe
and piano was made by
Liszt Prize-winningoboist
Tibor Szeszler (1919
1992).
