Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta was composed in the summer of 1936, and is widely regarded as a masterpiece of his mature period. Less well known, however, is a similarity between its opening fugue and the first movement of Arnold Bax’s third symphony, composed in 1928-9. The similarity is easy to spot […]
Bax and Bartók: A Question of Influence
