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
Five Easy Pieces (Milo Rau) and explores what is acceptable and unacceptable for the spectators. The essence of "Five Easy Pieces" is not the horror of the Dutroux affair, but the big themes that lie behind this specific case. According to Milo Rau, these are "the decline of a country, the national paranoia, the mourning, and the anger that followed the crimes." It is not the killer and his psyche that interest him, but the history of Belgium and the collapse of Western colonial and industrial powers. In the Dutroux affair a number of important historical events concerning Belgium converge: from the loss of the