Urtext edition by Laszlo Somfai ensures accurate musical text for reliable performance
Includes three studies: Allegro Barbaro, Elegy-inspired, and Schubertian
Detailed preface on the origins of the piece provides historical context
Performance suggestions enhance interpretive depth for pianists
Suitable for both students and professional performers
Summarized by Shop
With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, with its effervescent waterfalls of sound, seems redolent of an elegy inspired by Debussy. In the third, by contrast, Schönberg's influence is
