Ernő LENDVAI:
Verdi and Wagner

The outstanding Hungarian musicologist transposed his specific methods of analysing Bartók’s works for the music of the past. So he demonstrated the vital connection between the music of Verdi and Wagner with the 20th century. The major chapters of this volume are concerned with this topics, while the book contains also the tonal dramaturgy of Falstaff as well as other essays.

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Ernő LENDVAI:
Bartók’s Style

Erno Lendvai was a pioneer with his book Bartók’s Style (published originally in Hungarian in 1955) in the research of the great Hungarian composer who obviously had one of the major influence on the 20th century music. He gives an analysis of tonal organization, proportions, interval symbolism, polarity and other aspects in two twin compositions: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

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Ernő LENDVAI:
Toscanini and Beethoven

This book of less than 80 pages is a great intellectual adventure: an exciting view on the Seventh Symphony by Beethoven in the performance of Arturo Toscanini. Certainly the essence is a detailed analysis of the work itself using similar methods which made Lendvai world-known after his studies on Bartók.

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Intercultural experiences in music education by the famous Hungarian pianist, former professor of the Liszt Academy in Budapest who has been teaching for more than ten years at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo.

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Erzsébet Tusa, the renowned concert pianist, professor of the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest as well as the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, the wife of the great musicologist Erno Lendvai whose research in Bartók’s music is of major interest throughout the world, used similar points of view in analising Liszt’s late works which led straight to the 20th century music as Prof. Lendvai in his Bartók studies.

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Further aspects of the Bartók analysis by Lendvai: the form concept, interaction of material and contents (The Bluebeard’s Castle), idea of duality (Two Portraits), dramatic forming (Two Pictures), tone symbols (The Miraculous Mandarin), nature-sybolics (Dance Suite), stereo problems (Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta), sythesis (Sonata for two pianos and percussion), grand sonata form (Violin Concerto, Divertimento), variants on the bridge form (the six string quartets), Allegro barbaro, Bartók’s harmonic system.

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