| Dating, etc. ⟨First Term at the Piano, Sz.53 (Bartók, Béla)⟩ |
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- [BB.66 / Sz.52-53/ W.32] Piano method, co-authored with S. Reschofsky - 1913; [revised as] First Term at the Piano, 1929 [Sz.53]) - No autogr. MS of the 48(?) pieces written by Bartók for the Piano Method and the 18 pieces re-edited separately as the First Term at the Piano exist. Revised copy of the Piano Method for a planned new edition (Béla Bartók Jr.)" - Schissel
| Posted at 23:19, 9 January 2016 by Carolus (administrator) |
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Somfai is not quite accurate here. 18 pieces were composed by Bartók for the first volume of a five-volume piano instructional series proposed by Rózsavölgyi és Társa in 1912-13. Bartók's colleague at the Budapest Academy of Music, Sándor Reschofsky, provided exercises in the first part of Volume 1 while the 18 pieces here made up the last half. According to Benjamin Suchoff the first volume was issued in the spring of 1913 by Rózsavölgyi és Társa. (Preface to to the Dover volume, pp.xxiii-xxiv). The series, titled Zongora Iskola, may not have actually appeared until 1917, but that could have been the date of the last volume, or a date added for a 1917 printing in a vain attempt to secure copyright in the USA. According to Suchoff, the authorship of the five volumes was as follows:
- Reschofsky and Bartók
- Reschofsky
- Bartók (edited 13 selections from Bach's Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach)
- Sándor Kovács
- Reschofsky
Posted at 23:28, 9 January 2016 by Carolus (administrator)
Edited at 23:53, 9 January 2016 by Carolus (administrator) |
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