THE TOWER OF SILENCE Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, which Bartók composed to the libretto of the poet Béla Balázs, a friend of both Bartók and Kodály, was completed in 1911, but for many long years it remained the symbol of the moral triumph of its creator. Bartók entered it in a
135: The Bartók and Kodály Anniversaries There is no question that Hungarian cultural memory exploits every occasion to celebrate the twin stars of its 20th century music, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. The two composers were born a year apart, and their entire career passed in a fruitful professional and
Zoltán Kodály published two works under the title Háry János. The first, a Singspiel, received its première on 16 October 1926 at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest, with Nándor Rékai conducting; the second, a six-movement orchestral suite drawn from the Singspiel, was first performed on 24 March 1927
The correspondence between Zoltán Kodály and the Viennese Universal Edition – like that between Bartók and the Viennese publisher, only excerpts of which have been published to date – is an invaluable source of twentieth-century music history. It reveals unknown details about the creation, publication and contemporary critical reception of
The personal relationship between Béla Bartók and Paul Sacher was brief, lasting for a mere five years from the summer of 1936 until the composer’s final departure for the United States in the autumn of 1940. Short-lived as it was, however, it contributed to three masterpieces; compositions that eventually turned
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