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Publisher's Note
Bartók wrote his Piano Concerto No.3 during the summer of 1945, intending it as a birthday present to be given to his wife, Ditta, on 3ist October. By this time he was already gravely ill; however, he was able to finish the score, with the exception of the last seventeen bars, which he noted in a kind of musical shorthand. These last seventeen bars were deciphered and scored by his friend and pupil Tibor Serly. Only a few expression marks and tempo indications, and no metronome marks, were found in Bartók's score. Had he lived on, there is no doubt that he would have edited the concerto as meticulously as was his habit.
In order to give a complete picture of the work, such markings as were deemed necessary were added by Tibor Serly; by Eugene Ormandy, who conducted the first performance; by Louis Kentner; and by Erwin Stein.
In preparing this Revised Edition, all extant sources have been examined and compared with the previously printed edition. For full discussion of the amendments reference should be made to the Editorial Notes to the Revised Edition of the published conductor's score.
As mentioned above, editorial markings were added by various hands for the first edition. In this revision, Bartók's own indications appear in the score in large type, as before. Editorial additions are further distinguishable from Bartók's markings according to the following scheme:
(i) verbal indications (e.g. Solo, Tutti, also accents and other articulation marks) are placed within square brackets (as opposed to parentheses, which the composer himself uses on occasion);
(ii) dynamic markings appear in small type, as before, although when associated with another editorial marking, square brackets also may be found;
(iii) editorial slurs, ties and crescendo and diminuendo signs are denoted by a small, centrally-placed vertical stroke.
The initial tempo indications for the first and second movements (Allegretto and Adagio religioso) are Bartók's, but he gave no such indications in the third movement. The editorial suggestion of Presto, J. = 69 at bar 644 in that movement corrects the previous, presumably erroneous, marking of J. = 96.
March 1994