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Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 127 is a musical composition for piano and orchestra. The piece was composed in 1945 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók during the final months of his life, as a surprise birthday present for his second wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók. It consists of three movements. ==Context== The Piano Concerto No. 3 was one of the pieces composed by Bartók after departing Hungary after the outbreak of World War II. Bartók's migration from Europe to America preceded that of his music. Lack of local interest, combined with Bartók's extended battle with leukemia and a general sense of discomfort in the American atmosphere prevented Bartók from composing a great deal in his early years in America. Fortunately, the composer was commissioned to create his Concerto for Orchestra which was extremely well received and decreased the composer's financial difficulties. This, combined with an abatement of his medical condition, allowed for a change in the composer's general disposition. The changes in the composer's emotional and financial state are considered by a few to be the primary causes for the third piano concerto's seemingly light, airy, almost neoclassical tone, especially in comparison to Bartók's earlier works.〔Morgan, Robert P., ''Twentieth-Century Music'', W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, pp. 179-186, ()〕〔Antokoletz, Elliot, ''The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music'', Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, ()〕 However, while the composition of a piece as a gift (his wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók's upcoming 42nd birthday on October 31, 1945) as opposed to a commission undoubtedly impacted the composing process, some think it more likely that the piece was instead the culmination of a trend of reduction and simplification which began almost ten years prior, with the Second Violin Concerto, and which concluded Bartók's exploration of tonality and complexity.〔Gillies, Malcolm, ''Final Chamber Works'' in ''The Bartók Companion'', edited by Gillies, Malcolm, Amadeus Press, Portland, pp. 538-553, ()〕 Bartók died on September 26, 1945, with the concerto unfinished. The task of completing orchestration of the final 17 measures, drawing from Bartók's notes, was eventually executed by the composer's friend, Tibor Serly. The Third Piano Concerto was later published in an edition by Serly and Erwin Stein, an editor for ''Boosey & Hawkes''.〔Kasparov, Andrey. “Third Piano Concerto in the Revised 1994 Edition: Newly Discovered Corrections by the Composer.” ''Hungarian Music Quarterly'' 11, Nos. 3-4 (2000): 2-11.〕 It was premiered in Philadelphia on February 8, 1946 under Hungarian conductor Eugene Ormandy with György Sándor as piano soloist. The piece has since been adapted for two pianos by Mátyás Seiber. Beginning in the 1990s, the composer's son, Peter Bartók, in association with Argentinian musician Nelson Dellamaggiore, worked to re-print and revise past editions of the Third Piano Concerto, to eradicate the many printed errors identified but never corrected by his father.〔Somfai, László. ''Béla Bartók: Composition, Concepts, and Autograph Sources''. Berkely: University of California Press, 1996.〕 Although few in actual number, changes made to the Piano Concerto affected the pitch content, pedalling and tempos of several key passages.〔 In 1994 Andrey Kasparov was soloist with the (Columbus Indiana Philharmonic ) (formerly Columbus Pro Musica) in the world premiere of the revised edition of Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3. According to conductor (David Bowden ), and Peter Bartók, who was in attendance: ::“These changes generally make the piano part more accessible or clarify questions of chordal structure....”〔Sluder, Claude K. “Revised Bartók composition highlights Pro Musica concert.” ''The Republic'' 16 February 1994.〕 The revised editions of both the two-piano reduction and the orchestral score of the Piano Concerto No. 3 are now available from ''Boosey & Hawkes''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Piano Concerto No. 3 (Bartók)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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