Bela Bartok composed his 44 Violin Duos in 1931 at the urging of the German violin pedagogue Erich Doflein. With two exceptions, all the pieces are based on original folk music themes, most of which the

Bela Bartok composed his 44 Violin Duos in 1931 at the urging of the German violin pedagogue Erich Doflein. With two exceptions, all the pieces are based on original folk music themes, most of which the

The Children's and Female Choruses were composed in a single burst of creative activity at the zenith of Bartok's career, in the summer of 1935, between such masterpieces as the String Quartet