12/28/2022 0 Comments Encyclopedia dictionaries![]() The music of Richard Strauss, whom he met in 1902 at the Budapest premiere of Also sprach Zarathustra, strongly influenced his early work. In 1903, Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. There he met Zoltán Kodály, who influenced him greatly and became his lifelong friend and colleague. Early musical career (1899–1908)īartók's signature on his high-school-graduation photograph, dated September 9, 1899įrom 1899 to 1903, Bartók studied piano under István Thomán, a former student of Franz Liszt, and composition under János Koessler at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. ![]() Shortly thereafter László Erkel accepted him as a pupil. 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). In Pozsony, Béla gave his first public recital at age eleven to a warm critical reception. 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 1888, when he was seven, his father (the director of an agricultural school) died suddenly. By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano his mother began formally teaching him the next year.īéla was a small and sickly child and suffered from severe eczema until the age of five (Gillies 1990, 5). ![]() 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). 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).Īmong her closest forefathers there were family names like Polereczky (Magyarized Polish or Slovak) and Fegyveres ( Magyar). Bartók's family reflected some of the ethno-cultural diversities of the country. ![]() Biography Childhood and early years (1881–98)īéla 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. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology. 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). Béla Viktor János Bartók ( / ˈ b ɑr t ɒ k / Hungarian pronunciation: Ma– September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. ![]()
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