Hungarian Rhapsodies virtuoso pianist as well as a composer). Liszt incorporated many themes he had heard in his native western Hungary and which he believed to be folk music, though many were in fact tunes written by members of the Hungarian upper middle class, or by composers such as József Kossovits, often played by Roma (Gypsy) bands. The large scale structure of each was influenced by the verbunkos, a Hungarian dance in several parts, each with a different tempo. Within this structure, Liszt preserved the two main structural elements of typical Gypsy improvisation—the "lassan" ("slow") and the "friska" ("fast"). At the same
Hungarian folksongs for voice and piano (Bartók) Hungarian folksongs for voice and piano (Bartók) Magyar népdalok énekhangra és zongorára (English: "Hungarian folk songs for voice and piano") is a collection of Hungarian folk song arrangements by Béla Bartók. Bartók's "Hungarian Folksongs" are now much better known outside Hungary in arrangements for violin and piano, or—without voice—for piano alone. One of the most famous songs "Elindultam szép hazámból" ("I left my beautiful fatherland") came to be applied to Bartók himself as he assumed the role of an exile. Hungarian Folksongs (1st series), nos. 1–4, for voice and piano (c.1904–1905) Hungarian Folksongs, for voice and piano (1906)(nos. 1–10: Béla