Cooper, David, 1956- author.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 3 92-416) and index.
• List of Illustrations — Preface — 1. ‘Sweet was my mother’s milk’: 1881-1902 — 2. ‘Now I came from the battlefield’: 1903-1904 — 3. ‘Two roads are before me’: 1905-1906 — 4. ‘Because my love has forsaken me’: 1907-1909 — 5. ‘Crossing the borders of Transylvania’: 1910-1913 — 6. ‘To plough in winter is hard work’: 1914-1918 — 7. ‘The time to rove has come’: 1919-1925 — 8. ‘The forest rustles, the fields rustle’: 1925-1928 — 9. ‘The wreath is wound around me’: 1929-1935 — 10. ‘Stars, stars, brightly shine’: 1936-1938 — 11. ‘From here is seen the graveyard’s border’: 1939-1942 — 12. ‘I see the beautiful sky’: 1942-1945 — Postlude — List of Works — Notes — Bibliography — Index.
• This biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician. David Cooper traces Bartok’s international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and composer, teacher, and pianist, while also providing a detailed discussion of most of his works. Further, the author explores how Europe’s political and cultural tumult affected Bartok’s work, travel, and reluctant emigration to the safety of America in his final years. Cooper illuminates Bartok’s personal life and relationships, while also expanding what is known about the influence of other musicians-Richard Strauss, Zoltan Kodaly, and Yehudi Menuhin, among many others. The author also looks closely at some of the composer’s actions and behaviors which may have been manifestations of Asperger syndrome.

Subjects:

• Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945.
• Composers — Hungary — Biography.
• Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. fast (OCoLC)fst00043062
• Composers. fast (OCoLC)fst00871620
• Hungary. fast (OCoLC)fst01205132

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