PIONEER
Bela Victor János BARTOK
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| birth | 25 March 1881, Nagyszentmiklos, HUNGARY (= Sânnicolau Mare, RUMANIA) |
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| death | 26 September 1945, New York, USA |
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| marriage | married in 1909 to:
 Marta ZIEGLER b. .......... they got divorced in 1923 |
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| marriage | On 28 Aug 1923 in Hungary married:
Ditta PASZTORY b. 1903, Rimaszombat, HUNGARY |
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PARENTS
| father | Bela BARTÓK Sr. b. ....1856, ....... |
| mother | Paula VOIT b. .... 1857, ....... |
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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)
- My Father by Peter Bartok
- We Interview Peter Bartok by Paul J. Stamler (19 Feb 2009) (online)
- Songcatchers: in search of the world's music by Mickey Hart with K. M. Kostyal (National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2003)
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