![]() ![]() She was a native of Turčiansky Svätý Martin (now Martin, Slovakia). ![]() Béla Bartók's mother, Paula (née Voit), an ethnic German, spoke Hungarian fluently ( Hooker 2001, 16). On his father's side, the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsodszirák, Borsod ( Móser 2006a, 44).Īlthough his paternal grandmother was from a Catholic Serbian family, Bartók's father, also named Béla, considered himself to be an ethnic-born Hungarian. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.īiography Childhood and early years (1881–98)īartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (since 1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on 25 March 1881. 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 eɪ l ə ˈ b ɑːr t ɒ k/ Hungarian: 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist. ![]()
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