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Topic: Bartok for Children- Original or an Arrangement?  (Read 503 times)

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Bartok for Children- Original or an Arrangement?
on: September 07, 2020, 11:44:47 PM
Hi,

Bartok did a cycle of short piano pieces for children, and based on folk songs.  Finished in 1909, and revised in 1945.  Heard Vol. I, #3 (Quasi Adagio) on a podcast the other day.  It wasn't the one in either the 1909 or 1945 revision.  Had a deep bass, and a great dissonant section in the middle.  The podcaster didn't identify the pianist, but fiddling on the net, looks like it might have been Zoltan Kocsis:

https://www.daysofdisorder.com/posts/zoltan-kocsis-plays-bartok-for-children

See 0:30


Does anyone know if this is Zoltan's arrangement, or was this written by Bartok?  Would love to see the sheet music if by Bartok.

Thanks so much,

John

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Re: Bartok for Children- Original or an Arrangement?
Reply #1 on: September 09, 2020, 02:43:42 AM
Idiot.  It's # 17 of book 1.  I wasn't even close on the rhythm.

Idiot.

Sorry for wasting  your time.

Embarrassed.

John

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Re: Bartok for Children- Original or an Arrangement?
Reply #2 on: September 09, 2020, 03:05:21 AM
Idiot.  Did it again.

Bartok did two versions of his For Children--  1909, and revised them in 1945, just before he died.  #17 with the dissonance in the middle, is in the 1945 version, not the 1909. 

So I still feel like an idiot, but the podcast announcer apparently got it wrong, too, as he said it was the 1909 version.

Feel slightly better, as not alone.  But not much better.

Thanx,

John
 

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