PIONEER:


nationality:
occupation:

born: 25 March 1881, Nagyszentmiklos, HUNGARY (= Sânnicolau Mare, RUMANIA)
died: 26 September 1945, New York, USA

married in 1909 to:
Marta ZIEGLER (b. .......... - d. ...........)
they got divorced in 1923

children:

  • Bela Jr. (b. 1911, ....... - d. 1994, .........)



On 28 Aug 1923 in Hungary married:
Ditta PASZTORY (b. 1903, Rimaszombat, HUNGARY - 21 Nov 1982, Budapest, HUNGARY)

children:

  • Peter (b. .. 1924, ...... - LIVING)



PARENTS:


father: Bela BARTÓK Sr. (b. ....1856, ....... - d. ..... 1888, .........)
mother: Paula VOIT (b. .... 1857, ....... - d. 1939, ..........)

children:

  • Bela (b. 25 March 1881, Nagyszentmiklos, HUNGARY (= Sânnicolau Mare, RUMANIA) - d. 26 September 1945, New York, USA
Elza



LIFE:


Made cylinder recordings in Rumania in 1909 and 1910 (Budapest National Museum)
Made cylinder field recordings in Turkey in Nov 1936 (Adnan Saygun)
In 1940 Bela and Ditta Bartok emigrate to USA, arriving at New York on 29/30 October 1940


NOTES:

  • The Cambridge Companion to Bartók by Amanda Bayley (Camebridge University Press, 2001, online book)
  • The Concerto: A Reader's Guide by Michael Steinberg, 1996
  • Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor. Ed. Benjamin Suchoff. Princeton, 1976
  • Studies in Ethnomusicology Selected and edited by Benjamin Suchoff. University of Nebraska Press, 1997
    Hungary to Regain Son as Bartok's Exile Ends (New York Times, 17 June 1988)
  • Bartok Virtual Exhibition (online)
  • Bela Bartok (1881-1945) http://www.musicologie.org/biographies/bartok_bela.html
  • My Father by Peter Bartok
  • We Interview Peter Bartok by Paul J. Stamler (19 Feb 2009) (online)






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