At thirty-five, Joseph Szigeti was already an internationally famous violin virtuoso. Although he lived abroad, he decided to initiate a fruitful connection with Bartók in a roundabout way. In 1926 Szigeti prepared a transcription for violin and piano of six pieces from Bartók's "For Children", some Hungarian folksong arrangements which Bartók had set for the piano. Szigeti then sent the manuscript to Bartók's publisher, Universal Edition in Vienna, who passed it on to Bartók in Budapest in Sept...