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  Concerto for Orchestra

  Concerto for Orchestra (Sz. 116, BB 123) is a five-movement musical work for orchestra composed by Béla Bartók in 1943. It is one of his best-known, most popular and most accessible works. The piece was written in 1943, the score being inscribed "15 August - 8 October 1943", and it premiered on...

• Viola Concerto

  Béla Bartók wrote his Viola Concerto (BB128) in July-August 1945, in Saranac Lake, New York, while suffering from the terminal stages of leukemia. It was a response to a commission by William Primrose. Along with the Piano Concerto No. 3, it is his last work, and he left it incomplete at his death....

• Piano Concerto No. 2

  Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101 (1930-1931), is one of the composer's more accessible compositions for audiences alike, but remains one of the most challenging piano concerti in the repertoire. His previous effort in the genre, the Piano Concerto No. 1 (1926), is...

• Romanian Folk Dances

  Romanian Folk Dances (Sz. 56, BB 68) is a suite of six short piano pieces composed by Béla Bartók in 1915. He later orchestrated it for small ensemble in 1917: Sz. 68, BB 76. It is based on seven Romanian fiddle tunes from Transylvania. It is nowadays available in the 1971 edition which is written...

• Piano Concerto No. 3

  Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127 is a musical composition for piano with orchestral accompaniment. The piece was composed in 1945 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók during the final months of his career and life. It consists of three movements, and noticeably deviates...

• Sonata for Solo Violin

  The Sonata for Solo Violin Sz. 117, BB 124, is a sonata for unaccompanied violin composed by Béla Bartók. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin commissioned a work for solo violin from Bartók in November 1943. It was written in New York and in Asheville, North Carolina, where Bartók underwent treatment for...

• Piano Sonata

  The Piano Sonata BB 88 (Sz. 80) of Béla Bartók was composed in 1926. It is tonal, but is highly dissonant. It uses the piano in a percussive fashion. The work is in three movements, with the following tempo indications: A performance generally lasts around fifteen minutes. Bartók wrote also a piano...

• String Quartet No. 5

  The String Quartet No. 5 Sz. 102, BB 110 by Béla Bartók was written between August 6 and September 6, 1934. The work is in five movements: Like the String Quartet No. 4 and several other works by Bartók, the piece is in an arch form. Additionally, the first movement, which is in a sort of sonata...

• Violin Concerto No. 1

  Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1, BB 48a was written around the years 1907–1908, but only published in 1956, after the composer's death. It was premiered in May 30, 1958 in Basel, Switzerland. It strays from the path of the traditional concerto, having two rather than three movements: Bartók had...

• Sonatina

  Béla Bartók's Sonatina on Themes from Transylvania is a piece for solo piano written in 1915. It is based on folk tunes Bartók collected in his native Hungary, and consists of three movements: Though Bartók arranged it in three movements, the piece actually consists of five different folk tunes: he...