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Béla
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Famous
Banat Composer &
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Béla Viktor János Bartók (born March 25, 1881 and
died September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer
and pianist. He is considered one of the most
important composers of the 20th century and is
regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest
composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and
analytical study of folk music, he was one of the
founders of ethnomusicology. |
Béla Bartók
was born in the small Banatian
town of Nagyszentmiklós in the
Kingdom of Hungary,
Austro-Hungarian Empire, (since
1920 Sânnicolau Mare, Romania)
on March 25, 1881. Bartók's
family reflected some of the
ethnic diversity of the country.
His mother, Paula (née Voit),
had German as mother tongue, but
was ethnically of "mixed
Hungarian" origin: Her maiden
name Voit is German, probably of
Saxon origin from Upper Hungary,
though she spoke Hungarian
fluently. Among her forefathers
there were family names like
Polereczky (Magyarized Polish)
and Fegyveres (Magyar). His
father, Bélla Sr., considered
himself thoroughly Hungarian,
though his mother was from a
Roman Catholic Serbian
family. [citation needed] 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). By the age of four, he
was able to play 40 pieces on
the piano; his mother began
formally teaching him the next
year.
[Source: Wikipedia.org]
Publishers Note:
Groß
St. Nikolaus
/ Gross St.
Nikolaus
(German)
Groß Sankt
Nikolaus
(German)
Nagyszentmiklós
/ Nagyszentmiklos
(Hungarian)
Sînnicolau Mare
/ Sinnicolau
Mare
Sânnicolaul
Mare / Sannicolaul
Mare, Romania
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