With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. - Bela Bartok
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
- Bela Bartok
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.
Competitions are for horses, not artists. - Bela Bartok
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. - 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-… - 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-…
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 …
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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