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Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer (–)
"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 – 26 September ) 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 folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology.
Biography
[edit]Childhood and early years (–)
[edit]Bartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on 25 March [2] On his father's side, the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from B
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Hungary at Last to Welcome Home Bartok’s Remains
NEW YORK — The great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok was honored in musical tribute Sunday, 43 years after his death in self-exile and three days before his remains are moved to “his beloved country, Hungary.”
Ferenc Esztergalyos, Hungary’s ambassador to the United Nations, joined other Hungarian officials, aficionados of classical music and Bartok’s two sons at a memorial service at the Unitarian Community Church in Manhattan.
The service was the first memorial for Bartok, considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. He fled the Nazis in and died of leukemia in at the age of 64 while eeking out a living as a musical researcher at Columbia University in New York.
A state funeral is scheduled July 7 in Budapest for the composer.
Esztergalyos wished the composer “a safe journey and rest in peace to his beloved country, Hungary.”
Bartok’s remains will be removed Wednesday from Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsda
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Hektoen International
James L. Franklin
George Dunea
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Black clouds of war were hanging over the world when Béla Bartók and his wife Ditta Pásztory () disembarked in New York Harbor on October 30, For the remainder of his life, Bartók would learn, as had poet, “. . . how salt the taste of another man’s bread and how hard is the way up and down another man’s ladder.”1 At the age of fifty-nine, a “stranger in a strange land,”2 he and his wife would have to learn a new language and with limited resources navigate the confusing and chaotic landscape of one of the world’s largest metropolises. He would confront a slowly progressive and mysterious illness that would ultimately cause his death at the age of sixty-four. Yet he triumphed, writing some of his greatest music and assuring his place as one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
Shortly after his death, a polarized view of Bartók’s sista years emanated from voices in pos