Hungarian Pictures Hungarian Pictures Hungarian Pictures, sometimes also referred to as Hungarian Sketches, Sz. 97, BB 103 () is a suite for orchestra by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók finished in 1931. The suite consists of orchestrations of earlier short pieces for piano composed between 1908 and 1911. The original piano pieces were created during Bartók's journey around Romania and Hungary, when he started collecting and arranging folk music that further transformed his somewhat Lisztian early style into the style he came to develop. Therefore, many of the compositions from this period were either based on folk music or created from scratch with
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