Music for Commissions, Competitions, and Requests: Béla Bartók and musical patronage | by Zs. Németh

Following the enlightening call for the workshop “Historical Perspectives on Musical Commissions” at the end of 2023, I searched for any comprehensive studies focusing on Béla Bartók and his commissions or Béla Bartók and his commissioners. Over the past century or so, numerous studies have been devoted to Bartók’s compositional output, utilizing a variety of approaches. This led me to believe that there should also be a number of studies on the subject in question. I was surprised to discov...