Béla Bartók
25.03.1881—26.09.1945

Future Performances

Hungarian Peasant Songs
26.09.2012, Paris (F)
Hungarian Peasant Songs
12.01.2013, Tokyo (J)

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Béla Bartók
Hungarian Peasant Songs | for orchestra

Work Details
Year of composition: 1914-1917/1933
Scored for: for orchestra
Composer: Béla Bartók
Instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 2 2 2 1 - timp, hp, str
Instrumentation details: 1st flute; 2nd flute (+picc); 1st oboe; 2nd oboe (+c.a); 1st clarinet in Bb (+cl(A)); 2nd clarinet in Bb (+cl(A); bass cl(Bb); bass cl(A)); 1st bassoon; 2nd bassoon; 1st horn in F; 2nd horn in F; 1st trumpet in C; 2nd trumpet in C; 1st trombone; 2nd trombone; bass tuba; timpani (+b.d); harp; violin I; violin II; viola; violoncello; contrabass
Table of Contents: Ballade (3'); Ungarische Bauerntänze (6')
Duration (min): 9

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World Première
Location: Szombathely / Hungary
Date: 18.03.1934
Work Introduction

In the early 1930s, Bartók resolved to compose some orchestra pieces which would be easy to play and thus could be performed more often than his other demanding, musically and technically difficult scores. So in 1933 he returned to his Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs for piano (1914-1918), [...]

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