The Life and Music of Bela Bartok

By Halsey Stevens

Book Overview

First published in 1953, and again in 1964, Stevens's study is a classic text, combining an authoritative, balanced account of the Hungarian composer's life with candid, insightful analyses of his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019816355X
• ISBN13: 9780198163558
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages

Customer Reviews

A must-buy for every Bartok fan.

An excellent book on the great Twentieth-Century composer, being both a biography in the usual sense, but also providing definitive analyses of his major works. The detailed description of Bartok's six string quartets, leaves little more to be said of them -- unless you want to go to monographs like Prof. Leo Treitler's Ph.D dissertation on the Fourth Quartet alone. A must for any Bartok lover. [updated email address]