"Outstanding. . . a significant achievement not only in Bartok research, but for its special perspective and its wealth of information and documentation regarding Hungarian culture and its relation to the broader European modern scene."--Elliott Antokoletz, author of "The Music of Bela Bartok" ""Bela Bartok and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest" is an imaginative and powerful reinterpretation of Bartok's aesthetic achievement, which is presented as integrally related to its historical milieu in early twentieth-century Hungary. This is neither a conventional biography of Bartok, nor a systematic analysis of his musical oeuvre. Rather, it is a sustained interpretation of the meaning of Bartok's modernism and folklorism, within the context of Hungarian modernism. Few scholars besides Frigyesi, in or out of Hungary, possess the combination of skills necessary to write such a book and it will be a standard treatment of the subject for many years to come."--Mary Gluck, author of "Georg Lukas and His Generation"
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