Bartók Béla: Béla Bartók Letters

This selection of letters is designed to give a comprehensive picture of Bartók in all his man, v aspects-the great musician, the musicologist, the man of fierce and incorruptible integrity-through his own correspondence, in his own words.
The volume contains over half his known correspondence, 289 letters in all.
In addition to a wide selection from the three-volume edition of' his letters published in Hungary, a number of isolated letters which have appeared in various publications are collected here, together with a number which are published for the first time.
The letters have been translated both from Hungarian and from the other languages German, Rumanian, French-he used writing to his foreign correspondents, with the exception of English, which remains as he wrote it.
The volume contains twenty-three photographs illustrating different stages and facets of his public and private life, and some, seventy musical illustrations to tile test.