92, BB 98, is the last cycle of folksongs for voice and piano by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.
[1] This was Bartók's last set of songs based on folk tunes and was put together in a seemingly random fashion, as they were grouped loosely into different categories, but not according to the date of composition of the individual pieces.
[2] The cycle was first performed by Maria Basilides, who also premiered the arrangement for orchestra, and Bartók at the piano, on January 30, 1930, in Budapest.
This song cycle is divided into four books of unequal length, containing a total of sixteen movements, and takes more than half an hour to perform.
[2] According to professor Michael Hicks, Bartók did not merely arrange folk music, but he rather re-composed the pieces and used repetitions, transpositions, texture economy and narrative building, which helped him "reach his ideal of making high art from the folksong of his homeland".