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People In Music History
Bartok, Bela (1881-1945) Hungarian composer settled in the United States,
1940, dying there a poor man. From youth, a virtuoso pianist. Cultivated and
developed Hungarian national musical style; partly in association with Kodaly,
collected and edited Hungarian folk songs, showing them to be different from
the gypsy music borrowed by Liszt, Brahms, etc. Active in investigating other
folk music, too. His own works -- often atonal and cultivating extreme
dissonance, especially in his middle life -- include opera Bluebeard's Castle,
mime plays The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin; much piano music
including Mikrokosmos, Out of Doors, and works for children; orchestral dance
suite; Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, 3
piano concertos, 2 violin concertos, viola concerto (posthumous, edited by T.
Serly), 6 string quartets, trio Contrasts, songs and folksong arrangements.