Performance with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and young dancers from the Folkwang Tanzstudio (Photo: Ursula Kaufmann/Stiftung Klavier-Festival Ruhr)
Please click on the following links to call up the credits for the different sections of this website
The website “Béla Bartók: Piano works” is a project of Stiftung Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Director and Intendant: Katrin Zagrosek (from 2024), Prof. Franz Xaver Ohnesorg (until 2023)
Paul Sacher Foundation Basel, Bartók Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest (Institute for Musicology of the Research Centre for the Humanities), publisher G. Henle, Editio Musica Budapest, Stiftung Mercator and Deutsche Bank Stiftung
Artistic content: Sir András Schiff
Creative director (concept development and research): Prof. Dr. Tobias Bleek
Programming and design: Victor Craven (victorcraven.com)
Director and editor: Michael Ciniselli
(Director for video footage of 2020: Enrique Sánchez Lansch)
Camera: Michael Ciniselli, Niklas Bott
Sound recordings and processing: Christoph Claßen (2020), Ines Kammann (2017)
Editorial preparation: Tobias Bleek, Michael Ciniselli
All film recordings with Sir András Schiff were made exclusively for this website in 2017 and 2020.
Tobias Bleek
Cordelia von Dombois, Richard McNicol, Anne Boden and Klara Bernat
Permission to use the scores of the piano collection For Children was kindly granted by the publishers G. Henle and Editio Musica Budapest.
Scores for II. Burlesque & and "The Night’s Music" have been newly set for this website by Meritxell Canela.
Béla Bartók plays For Children. Recording of a radio concert in early January 1945 (New Jersey "Kossuth" Radio).
Béla Bartók plays the II. Burlesque. Recording from November 10, 1929.
The folk song recordings made by Bartók used on this website are taken from the online publication: "Béla Bartók: Complete Collection of Hungarian Folk Songs" of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Institute for Musicology). Link: http://db.zti.hu/nza/br_en.asp
Photographers: All photographs were taken by Ursula Kaufmann unless otherwise credited under the photograph on the webpage.
Institutes: Bartók Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Science Budapest and Paul Sacher Foundation Basel (Collection Béla Bartók).
We have endeavoured to find the owners of all rights. In case of omission please contact Klavier-Festival Ruhr (education[at]klavierfestival.de)
Credits title images
First page Inside the score:
First page Education Projects:
All other index images appear in the title bar on the following subpage and are listed there.
Maroussia Aurich-Fromonteil, Cordelia von Dombois, Hannah Schütz, Tom Verbeke (advice and editing), Meritxell Canela (transcription and editing of scores)
We thank the following individuals and institutions for their support:
Dr. Felix Meyer and colleagues of the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel
Dr. László Vikárius, Dr. Márton Kerékfy and colleagues of the Bartók Archives Budapest (Institute for Musicology of the Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Science)
Dr. Wolf-Dieter Seiffert, Dr. Norbert Gertsch, Anne-Beatrix Bauknecht and colleagues of the publisher G. Henle
László Sigrai and colleagues of the Editio Musica Budapest
Elke Gasparaitis, Birgit Glasow, Michael Mans, Matthias Steinhauer and colleagues of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Jutta Schmoll-Barthel for providing image material from: András Schiff: "Musik kommt aus der Stille". Conversations with Martin Meyer. Essays, Bärenreiter/Henschel 2017.
The Ligeti website is a project of the Stiftung Klavier-Festival Ruhr.
Director and Intendant: Katrin Zagrosek (from 2024), Prof. Franz Xaver Ohnesorg (until 2023)
Vincent Meyer/Fondation Meyer, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Pro Musica Viva Maria Strecker-Daelen Foundation, Paul Sacher Foundation, Schott Music, Aldeburgh Music
Pianist and artistic director: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Creative director (concept development and research): Tobias Bleek
Programming and design: Victor Craven (victorcraven.com)
Director and editor: Michael Ciniselli
Camera: Henning Brümmer, Volker Striemer
Camera assistant: Alexey Sedorov
Sound recordings and processing: Christoph Claßen, Robin Bös
Editorial preparation: Tobias Bleek, Michael Ciniselli, Meritxell Canela
All film recording with Pierre-Laurent Aimard was made exclusively for this website through the generous support of Vincent Meyer.
Tobias Bleek
English translations
J. Bradford Robinson (Inside the score section)
Anne Boden, Richard McNicol
Permission to use the scores of György Ligeti’s music was kindly granted by the publisher Schott Music.
Photographers: Peter Andersen, Markus Bollen, Ursula Kaufmann, Jürgen Röhrscheid, Margit Tabel-Gerster,Mark Wohlrab, and other photographers (credited on the website).
Acknowledgements appear with the photographs and images where practicable.
We wish to thank the Paul Sacher Foundation, Schott Music and The M.C. Escher Company – the Netherlands for kindly granting permission to use selected sources from their collections.
We have endeavoured to find the owners of all rights. In case of omission please contact Klavier-Festival Ruhr (education[at]klavierfestival.de)
Credits title images "Inside the score"
The following images are used in the section "Inside the score" to introduce the different pieces:
Maroussia Aurich-Fromonteil, Claudia Eckes-Kohlrautz, Hannah Schütz, Tom Verbeke (advice and editing), Meritxell Canela (transcription and editing of scores), Annika Storck (editing), Klara Bernat (translations from Hungarian), Ute Luislampe
We thank the following artists and experts for their collaboration:
Eckart Altenmüller, Simha Arom, Daniele Ciampolini, Saschko Gawriloff, Marie-Luise Neunecker, Heinz-Otto Peitgen
We thank the following for their support:
Heidy Zimmermann, Evelyn Diendorf and other colleagues at the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel
Bernhard Pfau, Christian Krautscheid, Claus-Dieter Ludwig, Christopher Peter and other colleagues at Schott Music
Reinhard Meyer-Kalkus, Katharina Wiedemann and other colleagues at the Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin
Tobias Lehmann, Martin Sauer, Julian Schwenkner and other colleagues at Teldex Studio
Vera und Lukas Ligeti
Elke Gasparaitis, Birgit Glasow, Kathrin Hermes, Bettina Jaggi, Michael Mans, Matthias Steinhauer and other colleagues at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr
Lucy Maxwell-Stewart (Red House Productions)
Sophia Karwoski and Jessica Lustig (21C Media Group)
Lydia Connolly, Tracy Lees (HarrisonParrott)
Dan Whitfield, Bill Lloyd and other colleagues at Aldeburgh Music
The “Pierre Boulez: Douze Notations” website is a project of the Stiftung Klavier-Festival Ruhr.
Director and Intendant: Katrin Zagrosek (from 2024), Prof. Franz Xaver Ohnesorg (until 2023)
Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel, Universal Edition Wien, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (Education Projects)
Artistic content: Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre Boulez
Creative director (concept development and research): Prof. Dr. Tobias Bleek
Programming and design: Victor Craven (victorcraven.com)
Director and editor: Michael Ciniselli
Camera: Carsten Gierke
The Notations video interview with Pierre Boulez was conducted on 6 May 2012 by Tamara Stefanovich and Tobias Bleek in Baden-Baden. (Camera: Wolfgang Kropp).
Sound Engineer for the Notations recordings: Christoph Frommen
Editorial preparation: Tobias Bleek, Michael Ciniselli, Christine Lauter
Tobias Bleek
Permission to use the score of Pierre Boulez’s Douze Notations was kindly granted by the publisher Universal Edition.
Photographers: Ursula Kaufmann, Mark Wohlrab, Georg Anderhub (LUCERNE FESTIVAL), Eric Marinitsch and Alfred Schlee (Universal Edition) and other photographers that are directly mentioned on the website.
Institutes: Paul Sacher Foundation Basel; Universal Edition Vienna
All images with the exception of the index images are shown directly on the respective subpage.
We have endeavoured to find the owners of all rights. In case of omission please contact Klavier-Festival Ruhr (education[at]klavierfestival.de).
Index page images
“Inside the score” home page:
Excerpts from a copy of the Douze Notations made by Pierre Boulez in 1985 (Paul Sacher Foundation Basel)
All other index images appear in the title bar on the following subpage and are listed there.
Claudia Eckes-Kohlrautz, Jonas Reichert, Annika Storck
We would like to thank the following people and institutions for their support:
Pierre Boulez and Tamara Stefanovich
Robert Piencikowski, Dr. Angela de Benedictis, Evelyn Diendorf and Michèle Noirjean-Lindner (Paul Sacher Foundation Basel)
Eric Marinitsch, Wolfgang Schaufler and Johannes Michael Feigl (Universal Edition)
Klaus-Peter Altekruse (Sekretariat Pierre Boulez)
