Peter Laki is a musicologist serving as program annotator for the Cleveland Orchestra.

"Adds important material to the slim library of English-language studies of Bartok's achievements."--The New York Times

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOut of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music3Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?64The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary79Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945101Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama119The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok149Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s172Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok203Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi228A Conversation with Bela Bartok235Recollections of Bela Bartok243A Change in Style276Bartok's Third String Quartet278Bartok's Foreign Tour282Two Bartok Obituaries290A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok296Index of Names and Compositions307List of Contributors313

Peter Laki is a musicologist serving as program annotator for the Cleveland Orchestra.

"Adds important material to the slim library of English-language studies of Bartok's achievements."--The New York Times

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOut of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music3Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?64The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary79Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945101Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama119The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok149Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s172Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok203Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi228A Conversation with Bela Bartok235Recollections of Bela Bartok243A Change in Style276Bartok's Third String Quartet278Bartok's Foreign Tour282Two Bartok Obituaries290A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok296Index of Names and Compositions307List of Contributors313

Peter Laki is a musicologist serving as program annotator for the Cleveland Orchestra.

"Adds important material to the slim library of English-language studies of Bartok's achievements."--The New York Times

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsOut of Hungary: Bartok, Modernism, and the Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Music3Why Is a Bartok Thematic Catalog Sorely Needed?64The Gallows and the Altar: Poetic Criticism and Critical Poetry about Bartok in Hungary79Bartok's Reception in America, 1940-1945101Bluebeard as Theater: The Influence of Maeterlinck and Hebbel on Balazs's Bluebeard Drama119The Miraculous Mandarin: Melchior Lengyel, His Pantomime, and His Connections to Bela Bartok149Bartok and Stravinsky: Respect, Competition, Influence, and the Hungarian Reaction to Modernism in the 1920s172Travel Reports from Three Continents: A Selection of Letters from Bela Bartok203Bela Bartok: An Interview by Dezso Kosztolanyi228A Conversation with Bela Bartok235Recollections of Bela Bartok243A Change in Style276Bartok's Third String Quartet278Bartok's Foreign Tour282Two Bartok Obituaries290A Selection of Poems Inspired by Bela Bartok296Index of Names and Compositions307List of Contributors313