Coming out top
Paul Driver, 8 September 1994
The Bartók Companion
edited by Malcolm Gillies.
Faber, 586 pp., £35, February 1994,0 571 15330 5 Show More
edited by Malcolm Gillies.
Faber, 586 pp., £35, February 1994,
“... position from the vantage-point of the Nineties in the first chapter of The Bartók Companion, Malcolm Gillies notes that since the late Forties and Fifties ‘the authors of books on 20th-century music have generally placed him about fourth in their line-up of leading innovators – if number of pages can be taken as a guide – after Debussy (as ... ”
