Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20, Sz. 74

by Bela Bartok

Catalogue Op. 20
Composed 1920
Published 1922
Works 8

Eight short character pieces composed in 1920, each based on a Hungarian folk melody treated as a springboard for free harmonic and textural elaboration. Dedicated to the memory of Debussy — the most \"Impressionist\" of Bartók's piano collections. Op. 20 No. 8 was the last piano piece Bartók heard performed in his lifetime.

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