Category: 135: The Bartók and Kodály Anniversaries

BÉLA BARTÓK: PICTURES OF A LIFE – PART II

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