The Miraculous Circumstance: Bartok, Folklorist · 1983

The Miraculous Circumstance: Bartok, Folklorist

Barrie Gavin · 38 min

In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe, and he called his discovery 'a miraculous circumstance'. In this film the late A. L. Lloyd retraces Bartok's journeys through Hungary and Romania to rediscover that treasure of native music.

Cast

• A.L. Lloyd

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