![]() ![]() In Pozsony, Béla gave his first public recital at age 11 to a warm critical reception. Béla’s mother then took him and his sister, Erzsébet, to live in Nagyszőlős (today Vinogradiv, Ukraine) and then toPozsony (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 and 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 5. 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” ancestry (Bayley 2001, 16) of Danube Swabian origin. Among her closest forefathers there were families with such names as Polereczky (Magyarized Polish orSlovak) and Fegyveres (Magyar).īéla 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. 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 comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary’s greatest composers. Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881–September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. ![]()
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