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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
At the beginning of the twentieth century there was a turning point in the history of modern music.
The excesses of the romanticists began to be unbearable for many. There were composers who felt: “this road does not lead us anywhere; there is no other solution but a complete break with the nineteenth century.”
Invaluable help was given to this change (or let us rather call it rejuvenation) by a kind of peasant music unknown up till then.
* Béla Bartók's letters. Collected by Deme'ny, János, Pub. by The Hungarian Arts Council, Budapest, 1948 Google Scholar
† PORCELLIO SCABER LATR.
