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Béla Bartók died at age 64 in a hospital in New York City from complications of leukemia ( specifically, of secondary polycythemia ) on September 26, 1945.

His funeral was attended by only ten people.

Among them were his wife Ditta, their son Péter, and his pianist friend György Sándor ( anon.

2006 ).