Bartók and the Piano – musicological symposium

2019’s Bartók World Competition (organized by the Liszt Academy) was accompanied by an international musicological symposium organized by the Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities on 14 September, starting at 9 AM. The focus of both the competition and the symposium was the piano. The symposium’s program also featured a presentation of the newest volume of the Bartók Complete Critical Edition, which is being edited by the Bartók Archives of the Institute for Musicology.

Bartók and the Piano – musicological symposium

The first volume published in the Bartók Complete Edition

The first volume of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition and volume 4 of the Hungarian complete edition of Bartók’s writings (Bartók Béla írásai) were presented on 11 February 2017 in the Institute for Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Both publications are part of one of the two significant series edited by the staff of the Budapest Bartók Archives.

The first volume published in the Bartók Complete Edition