My FatherThis book is the younger son's account of the composer, Béla Bartók, as a family man whose profession happened to be writing music. The origin of details of several works are described. The appendix contains the surviving letters written by the father to the son, including those that can be viewed as a chronological account of the last one and a half years of his life. |
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