In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. - Bela Bartok
- Bela Bartok
Competitions are for horses, not artists. - Bela Bartok
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach. - Bela Bartok
It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old … - Bela Bartok
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old …
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-… - Bela Bartok
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-…
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. - Bela Bartok
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. - Bela Bartok
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be e… - Bela Bartok
Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be e…
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