“A COMPOSER ABIDES BY HIS OWN RULES” - Béla Bartók and His Patron Paul Sacher
“A COMPOSER ABIDES BY HIS OWN RULES” - Béla Bartók and His Patron Paul Sacher

Summary/Abstract: The personal relationship between Béla Bartók and Paul Sacher was brief, lasting for a mere five years from the summer of 1936 until the composer’s final departure for the United States in the autumn of 1940. Short-lived as it was, however, it contributed to three masterpieces; compositions that eventually turned out to be fundamental works of twentieth-century music history. They turned out to be not only cathartic masterworks in their own right, but also significant, epoch-making works that would greatly influence the musical development of many decades to come. Even the conductor commissioning them may have only gradually become aware of their full significance.

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