Bartók Béla: Rumänische Volktänze/Román népi táncok zongorára

Description

ln the preparation of this revised edition the last previous printed edition was compared with the available manuscript sources, which include editions marked by Béla Bartók with corrections. His corrected copies of the violin-piano transcription (prepared by Zoltán Székely), as well as the orchestra arrangement, were also considered.
The major correction concerns metronome numbers. At various times since the work's first publication the composer slightly revised some of these tempi. ln the composer'slifetime the last printed editions of both violin-piano and piano versions, produced during World War II, bear corrections in his file copies, the two being in agreement with each other as well as with the marked duration of each dance. The tempi found in these printed editions, believed to be the composer's last word on the subject, appear in this revised edition.' (Peter Bartók)