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.'.
