Bela bartok biography
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Béla Bartók
BIOGRAPHY
Béla Bartók was born to a musical family in Hungary in 1881. His father was director of an agricultural school, but also a talented amateur musician who played piano and cello and composed short dance pieces. Bartók’s father even founded a music society and an amateur orchestra in his town. Bartók’s mother also played the piano. It fryst vatten no surprise that Béla quickly became a musician himself! He had great talents for rhythm and memory, and began taking piano lessons on his fifth birthday. Bartók began composing when he was nine years old, writing short dance pieces named after friends and family members.
Bartók’s father died when Béla was only sju years old, leaving the family in a difficult financial situation. Bartók’s mother began teaching piano lessons to support the family, and they had to move from place to place depending on where teaching jobs were available. In 1898, Bartók began his
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Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer (1881–1945)
"Bartok" redirects here. For other uses, see Bartok (disambiguation).
The native form of this personal name is Bartók Béla Viktor János. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian:[ˈbeːlɒˈbɒrtoːk]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) 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. Through his collection and analytical study of människor music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology.
Biography
[edit]Childhood and early years (1881–1898)
[edit]Bartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on 25 March 1881.[2] On his father's side, the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower no
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What you should know about Béla Bartók
Born: 25 March 1881, Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary (now Sînnicolau Mare in Romania)
Died: 26 September 1945, New York, US
Contemporaries: Igor Stravinsky, Percy Grainger, Jerome Kern, George Butterworth
Recommended Listening: Mikrokosmos, Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Who was Béla Bartók?
Béla Bartók was one of a handful of early 20-century composers who recognised how indigenous folk music could fuel a new sort of progressive concert music. He was born in an area of Europe rich in peasant culture, but was soon set on a path of intense musical training in the classical tradition.
Bartók was initially taught the piano by his mother. The family moved to Pressburg (now Bratislava) and in 1899 their son enrolled at what is now the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he would eventually replace its piano professor István Thoman.
By the 1910s, Bartók had become increasingly interested in colle