Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók) was expensive. Ten Easy Pieces (Bartók) Ten Easy Pieces, Sz. 39, BB 51 () is a collection of short pieces for piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It was composed in 1908. Though initially it was conceived as "Eleven Piano Recital Pieces", one of the pieces was dropped and used as a bagatelle in Bartók's Fourteen Bagatelles. However, he was required by a contractual obligation with his publisher to write eleven pieces, so he wrote a dedication which is not numbered but serves to complement the set. For this reason, this set and his set of bagatelles are related, both
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