TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alicja Usarek-Topper
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783034340397
TI  - Béla Bartók’s 1907 Violin Concerto
T2  - Genesis and Fate
DO  - 10.3726/b16798
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/976916
N2  - The genesis and genius of Bartók’s Concerto was mingled with his love for Stefi Geyer. As Hungarian Tristan pursuing his Isolde, he sounds allusions to Wagner’s paean of unfulfilled love. In transposing the ideal into the real, Bartók enlists folk sources voicing pristine truths of peasants. While biography and Tristan allusions supply the keys to Stefi’s Concerto, the Tristan grief motif serves as bridge from idealized romance to the pentatonic simplicity of peasant realism. In these tensions private love and public life, and esoteric romance and raw worldliness are provoked and reconciled. The rise and fall of living romance and its musical mirroring against peasant scales and rhythms is background to "Tristan" ruling a score that incites and resolves the clash of two conflicting worlds
KW  - unfulfilled love, pentatonic simplicity, conflicting worlds
LA  - English
ER  -