NELSON DELLAMAGGIORE was born in 1940 in Córdoba, Argentina. He studied
harmony and composition privately in Argentina and at the New England Conser-
vatory in Boston. He graduated in 1977 from the Berklee College of Music, Boston,
with a degree in arranging and composition. He has been associated with Bartók
Records since 1988 as music editor.

STEPHEN ERDELY is a graduate of the Franz Liszt Music Academy and of the Franz
Josef University and earned his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University. He began
his musical career as a violinist concertizing and recording in Western Europe. Upon
the invitation of George Szell, he became a member of the Cleveland Orchestra. He
taught at Ohio State University, is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and is currently at Harvard Research Associates of the Milman Parry
Collection and on the faculty of the Harvard Extension School. His latest publica-
tion is Music of Southslavic Epics from the Bihac Region of Bosnia ( 1995).

VICTORIA FISCHER, program chair for the International Bartók Conference at
Radford University ( 1995), has made the music of Béla Bartók her specialty since her
doctoral work at the University of Texas with Elliott Antokoletz. She has continued
to explore and share her insights into Bartók's music through performances, work-
shop presentations, and scholarly research. Among other distinctions, she attended
the International Bartók Festival in Hungary, where she performed and attended a
meeting of Bartók edition editors, and in 1990 she received the first prize in the
Bartók-Kabalevsky International Piano Competition in Radford, Virginia. She par-
ticipated in events in Los Angeles, New York, and Szombathely ( Hungary) during
the special Bartók year of 1995. Fischer is associate professor of music at Elon Col-
lege, where she teaches applied piano, music history, and piano pedagogy.

JUDIT FRIGYES I studied musicology and ethnomusicology at the Budapest Acad-
emy of Music and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She received her Ph.D. from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Frigyesi taught musicology and ethnomusicology at the
University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and Princeton University; she has
published articles that deal with Bartók's musical style, turn-of-the-century Hun-
garian cultural history, and Hungarian peasant music. She is the author of The Birth
of Hungarian Modernism: Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the-Century Budapest ( 1998) and
is currently working on the book Bvla Bartók and Hungarian Literary Modernism.

MALCOLM GILLIES is professor and dean of the faculty of music, University of
Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia. He served as president of the Musicological So-
ciety of Australia from 1992 to 1994. His books include Bartók in Britain: A Guided
Tour ( 1989), Notational and Tonal Structures in Bartók's Later Works ( 1989), and
Bartók Remembered ( 1990), as well as collections of writings that concern the Aus-
tralian musician Percy Grainger. Gillies produced in 1993 the third edition of Halsey
Stevens's classic, The Life and Music of Béla Bartók, and is working on the Bartók
entry for the seventh edition of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

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