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LEADER: 02819cam a2200337 i 4500
001 2014047980
003 DLC
005 20151117080907.0
008 141210s2015 ctuabg b 001 0beng
010 $a 2014047980
020 $a9780300148770 (cl : alk. paper)
020 $a0300148771$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-hu---
050 00 $aML410.B26$bC68 2015
082 00 $a780.92$aB$223
100 1 $aCooper, David,$d1956-$eauthor.
245 10 $aBela Bartók /$cDavid Cooper.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c2015.
300 $axiv, 436 pages :$billustrations, map, music ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 3 92-416) and index.
505 0 $aList 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.
520 $aThis deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. 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. The book, in short, is a consummate biography of an internationally admired musician.
600 10 $aBartók, Béla,$d1881-1945.
650 0 $aComposers$zHungary$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014047980-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2014047980-d.html