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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Among his notable works are the opera Bluebeard's Castle, the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, the Concerto for Orchestra and six string…
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politics · Hungarian composer (1881–1945) · composer · classical pianist · choreographer · musicologist · music educator · ethnomusicologist · university teacher · collector of folk music · musician · pianist · also Béla Bartók, Bartok, Bela Viktor Janos Bartok, Bela Bartok, Béla Viktor János Bartók, Bartók
Born 25 March 1881 · Died 26 September 1945 · Q83326
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2026· 4 entries
BBC: Videos - BBC National Orchestra of Wales - BBC NOW 2022-23 Season Digital Concerts: Bartók
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The Berkshire Edge: CONCERT REVIEW: Bartok and Salonen show what the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra can really do
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Border Counties Advertizer: Piano duet recital brings Bartók and Schubert to Hermon Chapel
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Béla Bartók: Complete Piano Concertos album review – Tomáš Vrána rises to the challenge
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2023· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Béla Bartók & Zoltán Kodály to Release New Orchestral Album
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2022· 1 entry
Independent.ie: Béla Bartók’s journey from culinary fish out of water to musical Marmite
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Bluebeard’s Castle review – Bartók’s opera wields devastating power in contrasting performances
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Behind closed doors: does love and isolation make Bartók’s Bluebeard the opera for our times?
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Martin Speake: Duos for Trio: The Music of Bela Bartók review - quiet ingenuity
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2016· 4 entries
scmp.com: Six degrees of separation from Hungarian composer Béla Bartók
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The Guardian: Bartók: Mikrokosmos 6 CD review – spacious warmth and fiendishness
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The Guardian: Bartók: 44 Duos review – virtuoso sisters show finesse and fire
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The Guardian: Another theory on Béla Bartók’s send-up in his Concerto for Orchestra
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2015· 3 entries
culture.pl: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
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The Washington Post: Book review: Musician Béla Bartók was pride of two nations
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Gramophone: Béla Bartók – the life and music of the Hungarian maverick
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2009· 1 entry
And featuring busts of famous "Romanians"
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2005· 2 entries
NPR: From the Village to the Concert Hall: Béla Bartók
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Stands in the front lobby of The Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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1999· 1 entry
Bartók was inducted into the American Classical Musical Hall of Fame
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1997· 1 entry
Now commemorates Bartók at 7 Sydney Place, where he stayed when performing in London
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1988· 1 entry
The Hungarian government, along with his two sons, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred to Budapest for burial
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Trustees Award (1984).
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1982· 1 entry
One year after what would have been his 100th birthday)
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Kossuth Prize (1948).
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1945· 6 entries
Died 1945-09-26.
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“In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”
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Bartók composed his Piano Concerto No
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Shortly before his death, Bartók never felt fully at home in the country
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Career landmark: member of the Provisional National Assembly (1945–1945).
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“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”
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1944· 1 entry
Bartók was commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin to write a Sonata for Solo Violin
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1942· 2 entries
Their son Péter enlisted in the United States Navy, serving in the Pacific War and then settling in Florida, where he became a recording engineer
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Symptoms increased and he started having bouts of fever
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1940· 2 entries
As the European political situation worsened after the outbreak of World War II, Bartók was increasingly tempted to flee Hungary
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When his right shoulder began to show signs of stiffening
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1936· 1 entry
Traveled to Turkey to collect and study Turkish folk music
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1934· 1 entry
And the Sixth String Quartet (his last) in 1939
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1933· 1 entry
Bartók refused to give concerts in Germany and broke away from his publisher there
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1930· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1930).
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1926· 1 entry
Bartók needed a significant piece for piano and orchestra with which he could tour in Europe and America
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1923· 1 entry
After nearly 15 years together, Bartók divorced Márta in June 1923.
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1921· 1 entry
And 1922, which are among his most harmonically and structurally complex pieces
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1920· 1 entry
And the Dance Suite in 1923, the year of his second marriage
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1918· 1 entry
The story's sexual content kept it from being performed until 1926
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1917· 1 entry
Bartók revised the score for the 1918 première and rewrote the ending
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1911· 1 entry
Bartók wrote his only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, dedicated to Márta
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1909· 2 entries
In 1909, at 28, Bartók married Márta Ziegler, aged 16.
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At 28, Bartók married Márta Ziegler, aged 16
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1908· 1 entry
Bartok and Kodály traveled into the countryside to collect and research old Hungarian folk melodies
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1907· 1 entry
Came under the influence of French composer Claude Debussy, whose compositions Kodály had brought back from Paris
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1903· 3 entries
Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem that honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
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Bartók composed Kossuth, a symphonic poem in ten tableaux on the subject of the 1848 Hungarian war of independence, reflecting his growing interest in musical nationalism
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Studied at Franz Liszt Academy of Music (1899–1903).
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1902· 2 entries
His creative energies were revitalized by the discovery of the music of Richard Strauss, whose tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, according to Bartók, "stimulated the greatest enthusiasm in me; at last I saw the way that
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At the Budapest premiere of Also sprach Zarathustra, strongly influenced his early work
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1890· 1 entry
Composed very little, though he began to work on exercises in orchestration and familiarized himself thoroughly with the operas of Wagner
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1888· 1 entry
When he was seven, his father, the director of an agricultural school, died suddenly
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1881· 2 entries
Born 1881-03-25.
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Is situated some 58 kilometres north-west of Timișoara, and is just inside Romania today, near the border with Hungary
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