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Béla Bartók

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2016 - 44 Duos

1995 - The Rose Collection: Concerto for Orchestra & The Miraculous
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1994 - Violin Concerto No. 2 / Viola Concerto
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1988 - Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Janáček: Sinfonietta

1988 - Die 6 Streichquartette

1987 - Works for Piano and Orchestra

1987 - Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time / Bartok: Contrasts

1986 - Music by Ellington & Bartók

1986 - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Janacek: Sinfonietta

1986 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Divertmento for

1986 - Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion and C

1986 - Divertimento / Romanian folk dances - Janacek: Mladi (Orpheu
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1985 - Béla Bartók: Divertimento · Romanian Folk Dances / Leoš

1985 - Bartok: Concerto for two pianos, percussion & orchestra - Ko
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1985 - The Miraculous Mandarin / Music For Strings, Percussion and

1984 - Piano Concertos

1984 - The Six String Quartets
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1984 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Divertimento (Li

1983 - Ravel Quartet in F major / Bartók Quartet No. 3
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1983 - Concerto pour Orchestre / Deux images Op. 10 (Concertgebouw
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1982 - Concerto for Orchestra / Dance Suite (Chicago Symphony Orche

1981 - The String Quartets (Éder Quartet)
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1980 - Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta / Stravins
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1979 - The Miraculous Mandarin/Music for Strings, Percussion and Ce

1978 - Béla Bartók: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion / Igor Str

1977 - The Miraculous Mandarin
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1966 - Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Janáček: Sinfonietta

1965 - Bluebeard's Castle (London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Is

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Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary

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1881

Active
--- 1945

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Béla Viktor János Bartók; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology.
Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (since 1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on March 25, 1881. Bartók's family reflected some of the ethno-cultural diversities of the country. His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county (Móser 2006a, 44; Bartók 1981, 13), though his mother, Paula (born Paula Voit), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of "mixed Hungarian" (Bayley 2001, 16).
mong her closest forefathers there were family names like Polereczky (Magyarized Polish or Slovak) and Fegyveres (Magyar). Béla displayed notable musical talent very early in life: according to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano before he learned to speak in complete sentences (Gillies 1990, 6). By the age of 4, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano; his mother began formally teaching him the next year.
Béla was a small and sickly child and suffered from severe eczema until the age of 5 (Gillies 1990, 5). In 1888, when he was seven, his father (the director of an agricultural school) died suddenly. Béla's mother then took him and his sister, Erzsébet, to live in Nagyszőlős (today Vinogradiv, Ukraine) and then to Pozsony (German: Pressburg, today Bratislava, Slovakia). In Pozsony, Béla gave his first public recital at age 11 to a warm critical reception. Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called "The Course of the Danube" (de Toth 1999). Shortly thereafter László Erkel accepted him as a pupil.
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