Béla Bartók’s 1907 Violin Concerto

Genesis and Fate

von Alicja Usarek-Topper

156 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The genesis and genius of Bartók’s Concerto was mingled with his love for Stefi Geyer. As Hungarian Tristan pursuing his Isolde, he sounds allusions to Wagner’s paean of unfulfilled love. In transposing the ideal into the real, Bartók enlists folk sources voicing pristine truths of peasants. While biography and Tristan allusions supply the keys to Stefi’s Concerto, the Tristan grief motif serves as bridge from idealized romance to the pentatonic simplicity of peasant realism. In these tensions private love and public life, and esoteric romance and raw worldliness are provoked and reconciled. The rise and fall of living romance and its musical mirroring against peasant scales and rhythms is background to "Tristan" ruling a score that incites and resolves the clash of two conflicting worlds

• Reihe: Quellen und Studien zur Musikgeschichte von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Sources and Studies in Music History from Antiquity to the Present
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Soziale Schichten
• ISBN: 9783034335744
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers