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Béla Bartók

Born

in Banatian, Nagyszentmiklós, kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian empire, Hungary

March 25, 1881

Died

September 26, 1945

Website

http://freethoughtalmanac.com/?p=7788

Genre

Music

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Works, including the music for the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) and Concerto for Orchestra (1943), of Hungarian pianist and composer Béla Bartók combine east European folk with dissonant harmonies.

Since 1920, small childhood hometown of Béla Viktor János Bartók in the kingdom within Austria constituted Sânnicolau Mare or great Saint Nicholas, Romania.

From his mother, he got his first lessons, but from the age of 18 years in 1899, he studied under a protege of the great late Franz Liszt. At the royal academy in Budapest, he met Zoltán Kodály, lifelong friend. Kodály, Claude Debussy of France, Johannes Brahms, and old Magyar melodies influenced Bartók, who met Richard Strauss in 1902. Indeed, Bartók of founded study of ethn ...more

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	Mikrokosmos Volume 1 4.37 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1940 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bluebeard's Castle: Op. 11: Original Edition, 1921 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2000 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Béla Bartók - Mikrokosmos Volume 2 \| 153 Progressive Piano Pieces for Students and Beginners \| Classical Piano Method and Sight-Reading Exercises \| Boosey and Hawkes Edition 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1940 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays by Béla Bartók, Benjamin Suchoff (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scritti sulla musica popolare 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mikrokosmos, vol. 4 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1940 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"For Children", piano pieces, Vol. I (Hungarian), Nos. 1 - 21 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stage Works of Bela Bartok: English National Opera Guide 44 by Béla Bartók, Nicholas John (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mikrokosmos Vol. 3 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1940 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The String Quartets of Béla Bartók it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1945 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.”
― Béla Bartók

tags: atheism, atheist, eternal, eternity, immortality, ironic, irony, matter, mortality, origin, paradox, transitory

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“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”
― Béla Bartók

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“By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.”
― Béla Bartók

tags: atheism, atheist, transformation, understanding

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