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Bartók, Béla THE AUTOGRAPH WORKING MANUSCRIPT OF THE SECOND RHAPSODY FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO, BB 96, CONTAINING MANY REVISIONS AND TWO DISTINCT ENDINGS, 1928-1929 THE COMPLETE SCORE OF THE ORIGINAL VERSION, sent to the violinist Zoltán Székely in 1928, with a revised ending added on a separate leaf in 1929, CONTAINING SEVERAL PASSAGES CUT FROM ALL EDITIONS, the score notated mainly in blue-black ink on four systems per page, the two sections marked "Prima parte Moderato, ♪ = 108" and "Seconda parte, Allegro moderato, ♪ = 104" [published with the titles 'Lassú' and 'Friss'], with autograph rehearsal numbers throughout (1-49), containing deletions, alterations and revisions by the composer, including to the violin part at the end of page 18, with a cue for timpani added later on page 8; in the 'Seconda parte', there are many later annotations by the composer in pencil ("stringendo"; "agitato") and many cuts, presumably marked by Bartók during his work with Székely, the score also marked up by Székely with pencil fingerings and bowings throughout, and, on the wrapper, his draft of the violin passage at rehearsal figure 31 (Fig.28 in the 1935 revision) 19 pages, large 4to (c.34 x 27cm), (21 pages with Székely's inscribed title wrapper), pages 1-18 on 18-stave paper ("J.E. & Co. No.5 18-linig"), paginated by the composer, with an additional manuscript stave added by him at the foot of each page, comprising one gathering of 4 bifolia, the initial leaf affixed to the gathering at the beginning (the opening page written in black ink), Budapest 1928, the revised ending on an unpaginated page of 16-stave paper, Székely's inscribed wrapper on 10-stave Dutch paper (J.H.H. Siestrop of The Hague), 1929, a few tears and creasing to edges