Editio Musica Budapest

The volumes of the series cover the entire music literature from the early music to now. The material of the individual volumes has been compiled by accomplished music teachers and comprises short, ea...

It s quite rare when a composer s diploma work becomes a successful, popular piece even after 70 years. Frigyes Hidas (1928 2007) Oboe Concerto, written in 1951, is a work that Péter Pongrácz, Lajos L...

An ABRSM syllabus title 2014-21, Grade 6. From 1906 on Béla Bartók was collecting folksongs on a regular basis. It was in 1907, during his first collecting trip to Transylvania, that he jotted down th...

Bagpipers is the first movement of the three-movement Sonatina composed in 1915 (1. Bagpipers, 2. Bear Dance and 3. Finale). The composer said of the piece, ''Originally I planned a group of Romanianf...

An Evening in the Village was composed in 1908 as no. 5 of the Ten Easy Piano Pieces. It has become one of Bartók's favorite works, which the composer himself was fond of playing at recitals. As he ex...

They are arrangements from 'Játékok' made in the following sequence of movements: Fanfare I. - Dirge I. - Beating I. - Dirge II. - Fanfare II. - Hommage á Paganini (La nuova campanella) - Appendix: Be...