A fact from Suite, Op. 14 (Bartók) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Béla Bartók's Suite, Op. 14 originally featured five movements until Bartók discarded the second planned movement before publication?
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This article contains a claim, one part of which is misleading and the other part false:
"there is a twelve-tone row in the second movement, which is probably the only one in Bartók's entire oeuvre."
First, it is anachronistic to call this a twelve-tone row, since it precedes the formulation of the twelve-tone serial method by many years! Second, twelve-tone rows can be found in other pieces, such as the fourth string quartet and the violin concerto. I do not know the book cited, but either it is mistakenly cited, or it is not a good source.
Not my article, but here are my two cents: the fact that it features a twelve-tone doesn't mean it is necessarily dodecaphonic. If you feel the source is unreliable you can try and remove it. If nobody reverts your edit, it probably was a good contribution. Ron Oliver (talk) 16:57, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
