Bela Bartok and Turn-Of-The-Century Budapest

Informationen zum Autor Judit Frigyesi is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University. Klappentext "Outstanding. . . a significant achievement not only in Bartók research! but for its special perspective and its wealth of information and documentation regarding Hungarian culture and its relation to the broader European modern scene."-Elliott Antokoletz! author of The Music of Béla Bartók " Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest is an imaginative and powerful reinterpretation of Bartók's aesthetic achievement! which is presented as integrally related to its historical milieu in early twentieth-century Hungary. This is neither a conventional biography of Bartók! nor a systematic analysis of his musical oeuvre. Rather! it is a sustained interpretation of the meaning of Bartók's modernism and folklorism! within the context of Hungarian modernism. Few scholars besides Frigyesi! in or out of Hungary! possess the combination of skills necessary to write such a book and it will be a standard treatment of the subject for many years to come."-Mary Gluck! author of Georg Lukas and His Generation Zusammenfassung Bartok's music is greatly prized by concertgoers. Bartok is often seen as a lonely genius emerging from a gray background of an 'underdeveloped country.' This book offers a broader perspective on Bartok's art by grounding it in the social and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Hungary and the intense creativity of its modernist movement.

Product details

• Authors: Judit Frigyesi, Frigyesi Judit
• Assisted by: Judit Frigyesi (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2000
• EAN: 9780520222540
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22254-0
• No. of pages: 367
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Cultural Studies, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Hungary, Theory of music & musicology, Romanticism, Composers and songwriters, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology