Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938)
Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary s greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. Please support my channel: Violin Concerto No. 2 (193738) Dedicated to Zoltán Székely 1. Allegro non troppo 2. Andante tranquillo 3. Allegro molto Isaac Stern, violin and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein Béla Bartók s Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 was written in 193738. During the composer s life, it was known simply as his Violin Concerto. (His other violin concerto, Violin Concerto No. 1, Sz. 36, BB 48a was written in the years 19071908, but
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