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Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 25 March 1881
- Died
- 26 September 1945
- Place of birth
- Sânnicolau Mare
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Béla
- Family name
- Bartók
- Father
- Béla Bartók
- Mother
- Paula Voit
- Child
- Péter Bartók, Béla Bartók
- Genre
- opera, classical music
- Field of work
- music, traditional folk music, musicology, etnomusicology
- Occupation
- composer, classical pianist, choreographer, musicologist, music educator, ethnomusicologist, university teacher, collector of folk music, musician, pianist, politician
- Position held
- member of the Provisional National Assembly
- Citizenship
- Hungary, United States
- Religion
- Unitarianism
- Awards
- Kossuth Prize, Grammy Trustees Award, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music
- archives at
- Library of Congress Music Division
- cause of death
- leukemia
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), UbuWeb, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), BEIC Digital Library, Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers, Faces of Moscow, Magyar múzeumi arcképcsarnok, Almanac of the Provisional National Assembly 1944–1945
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Gymnasium Grösslingová
- employer
- Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Nyugat
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Hungarian
- list of works
- Szőllősy index, list of compositions by Béla Bartók
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- independent politician
- name in native language
- Bartók Béla
- notable work
- Bluebeard's Castle, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 1, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Concerto for Orchestra
- partner in business or sport
- Zoltán Kodály
- place of burial
- Ferncliff Cemetery, Farkasréti Cemetery
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Béla Bartók
- relative
- Ervin Voit, Ilonka Bartók
- student
- Joseph Kosma, Fritz Reiner, Sándor Veress, György Sándor, Alice Carrard, Ilona Vincze-Kraus, Imre Balabán, Emma Kodály, Violet Archer
- student of
- László Erkel, István Thomán, Hans von Koessler
- topic's main category
- Category:Béla Bartók
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