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Scoring

2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2(II=bcl).2-4.2.3.1-timp.perc(2):xyl/cyms/tam-t/
tgl/BD/SD-strings

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Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

World Premiere
2/8/1946
Philadelphia
Gyorgy Sandor, piano / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy
Repertoire Note

This most lucid, technically easiest and most popular of Bartók's three piano concertos was written as a birthday gift for his wife, Ditta. Bartók lived to complete all but the orchestration of its last few bars, which was undertaken by Tibor Serly.

Note by Malcolm Gillies



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