Béla Bartók in Budapest - in the middle of 1941
from Béla Bartók Letters, page 299:
…since March 27th I have been deriving a good deal of pleasure from my work on the Yoguslav material which I wrote to you about some time ago (the notation of the music of 1,600 folk epics from a collection consisting of many times that number in all; the material was collected 5 or 6 years ago by a Harvard professor on several thousand records). […]
cite as
Béla Bartók, and Demény, János (ed.), Béla Bartók Letters (London, 1971), p. 299. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1450119818174 accessed: 28 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| folk epics |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | in the middle of 1941 |
| Medium | playback |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors |
Notes
Letter from Béla Bartók to his son Béla Bartók, Jr. , New York, April 2nd, 1941.
Originally submitted by verafonte on Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:03:38 +0000
Approved on Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:36:30 +0100