Mikrokosmos (Bartók)

Microcosm (Hungarian Mikrokozmosz ) is a piano school of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in six volumes. In Szollosy directory carries the numbering Sz 107, the directory of László Somfai BB 105

Formation

The pieces made ​​over the course of many years, comes one of the pieces already from 1926 and should be complementary to the beginning of the cycle 9 Little Pieces. However, Bartók had long cherished the idea of ​​writing a pedagogical piano cycle. But with the final execution of this idea, he only started in 1932. During this time he began to also give his son lessons, it is also the first two books dedicated. By the year 1937 so created about 100 pieces. 1939 ended Bartok the entire cycle, which in its full entirety contains 153 pieces.

About the Music

The work is a collection of didactic compositions, arranged progressively. This contains both easy pieces for beginners as well as pieces for advanced pianists. According to TA Zielinski is, however, a gradual introduction into the modern world of sound, an encyclopedia of modern piano playing and a lively " theoretical treatise " on the composition illustrating selected problems concerning scales and harmonies and rhythms.

Parts of the microcosm were adapted and performed in the early 1970s by the Slovak rock band Collegium Musicum from Bratislava.