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) Bartók; nos. 11–20: Zoltán Kodály not listed) Hungarian Folksongs (2nd series), for voice and piano (nos. 1–10) (1906–1907) Two Hungarian Folksongs, for voice and piano (1907) Eight Hungarian Folksongs, for voice and piano (nos. 1–5: 1907; nos. 6–8: 1917) Twenty Hungarian Folksongs, Vols. I–IV, for voice and piano (1929) 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.