Zoltán Kocsis Plays Bartók

The BB numbers refer to László Somfai’s worklist (Béla Bartók: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources, Berkeley, 1996), which place the works in chronological order. For Children, BB 53, Sz.42 (1943 revision*) *The fair copy of the revised version of Bartók’s For Children found in his papers carries an inscription, written by the composer himself in Hungarian, stating that he revised the work in 1943. Until now scholars have wrongly assigned this revision to January 1945. Mikrokosmos, BB...