This long-awaited, authoritative account of Bartók's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history an
Sought to discover an unvarying precompositional system that accounted for individual musical events. Wilson's approach is different in that he develops a way t
Composer, folklorist, and performer Béla Bartók (1881–1945) is internationally renowned as one of the most important and influential musicians of the twenti
The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century composer This deeply researched biography of Béla Bartók (1881-1945) prov