Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis - Current Issue

Summary The Netherlands got to know the music of Béla Bartók just before the First World War. The first Dutch reactions are mixed: on the one hand, awareness of great quality (already in the 1920s he is counted by some critics among the most important composers of his time), on the other hand, uncertainty about the nature of his music: influenced by folk music, Schoenberg, Debussy and a predilection for Read More