Bela Bartok Bartok was one of the great musicians of all time. And in his time, I think he was the best musician. He changed the music world and did lots of things that changed it for the better. Bartok Bela, born March 25, 1881, Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary, Austria-Hungary. He died September 26, 1945, New York, New York, U.S., Hungarian composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher, noted for the Hungarian flavor of his major musical works, which include orchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stage works, a cantata, and a number of settings of folk songs for voice and piano.
Career in Hungary
Bartok spent his childhood and youth in various provincial towns, studying the piano with his mother and later with a succession of teachers. He began to compose small dance pieces at age nine, and two years later he played in public for the first time, including a composition of his own in his program.
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A vast reservoir of authentic Hungarian peasant music was subsequently made known by the research of the two composers. The initial collection, which led them into the remotest corners of Hungary, was begun with the intention of revitalizing Hungarian music. Both composers not only transcribed many folk tunes for the piano and other media but also incorporated into their original music the melodic, rhythmic, and textural elements of peasant music. Ultimately, their own work became suffused with the folk