Béla Bartók's portrait on 1, 000 Hungarian forint banknote ( printed in 1983 ; no longer in circulation ).

The most famous modern Hungarian opera is Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

* Béla Bartók's concerto for two pianos and percussion

It also features prominently in Béla Bartók's 1936 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

Musical works that mention flies: Yoko Ono's 1971 album Fly, U2's 1991 song " The Fly ", Wire's 1978 song " I Am The Fly ", Alice in Chains album Jar of Flies, Dave Matthews's 2007 song " The Fly " and Béla Bartók's 1920s piano work " From the Diary of a Fly ".

This chromatic passage from the Intermezzo interrotto movement of Béla Bartók | Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra ( Bartók ) | Concerto for Orchestra requires the timpanist to use the pedals to play all the pitches.

They also gave the premiere of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, which had been commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation at the instigation of Fritz Reiner and Joseph Szigeti.

Due to Steinberg's illness, DG recorded the BSO with Rafael Kubelik in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana and in Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra as well as with Eugen Jochum conducting Symphony No. 41 by Wolfgang Mozart and Franz Schubert's Symphony 8.

* May 30 – Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Basel, 50 years after it was composed

* February 8 – Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premiered posthumously by György Sándor with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra

* February 19 – UK première of Béla Bartók's still-unpublished Third String Quartet, by The Hungarian String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, London.

* January 21 – Paul Sacher conducts the world première of Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta in Basel.

* January 20 – Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 6 is premièred in New York City.

* March 23 – Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 ( the only violin concerto known to be by him at the time ) is premiered by Zoltán Székely and the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg

* January 23 – Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 receives its première in Frankfurt.

* November 19-At a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest ( thus creating Budapest ), Béla Bartók's Dance Suite and Zoltán Kodály's Psalmus Hungaricus both receive their world premieres

* May 12 – Béla Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince is premiered in Budapest

She gave the French premiere of Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1945, having learnt it in only eight days.

* The last movement of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra ( 1943 ).

The cellist Yo-Yo Ma has employed a Hutchins vertical viola to perform and record Béla Bartók's Viola Concerto.

Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2.

The first colour recording was made this year: it was Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin.

He notably staged the world premiere of Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, the New York premiere of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida, and the United States premieres of Gottfried von Einem's The Trial and Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle.

Examples include Richard Strauss ' Sinfonia Domestica, which calls for a baritone saxophone in F ; Béla Bartók's The Wooden Prince ballet music ; Charles Ives ' Symphony No. 4, composed in 1910-16 ; and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris.

" Béla Bartók, frustrated with the popularity of the piece, parodies the ostinato from the " invasion " theme of the first movement of the symphony in the fourth movement, Intermezzo interrotto, of his Concerto for Orchestra ( see Quotations and Allusions below ).

* It has been alleged that Béla Bartók quoted the march theme of the first movement in the Intermezzo Interotto of his Concerto for Orchestra in response to the Hungarian composer ’ s frustration about the positive reception of the piece.

* " Next ", an instrumental piece by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones from their album Little Worlds

Béla Bartók ’ s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, written in 1937, was also an important piece for the development of percussion composition.

Although the composition of the first track, " The Barbarian ", was attributed to the three band members, it is an arrangement for rock band of Béla Bartók ’ s 1911 piano piece, Allegro Barbaro.

The piece was composed in 1945 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók during the final months of his life, as a surprise birthday present for his second wife Ditta Pásztory-Bartók.

In 1962, Bausch joined Jooss ' new Folkwang Ballett Company as a soloist and assisted Jooss on many of the pieces, before choreographing her first piece in 1968, Fragment, to music by Béla Bartók.

Béla Bartók's composition " Bagpipe ," from Volume 5 of Mikrokosmos, is a piano piece that imitates the sound of the duda.

*" The Barbarian ", a piece from Emerson, Lake & Palmer ( album ), after Béla Bartók's Allegro barbaro

Robert Mann's solo discography includes Béla Bartók's Solo Violin Sonata, the Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano, and Contrasts ; Beethoven's complete violin sonatas ( with pianist Stephen Hough ); many of Mozart's violin sonatas, with pianist Yefim Bronfman ; and Elliott Carter's Duo for Violin and Piano, with Christopher Oldfather.

Nevertheless, when Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich of Halych, who had been expelled from his country by his subjects, fled to Hungary seeking for assistance in 1188, King Béla III had him arrested and occupied his principality and he invested Andrew with Halych.

Following the 1919 revolution, he was pressured by the new Soviet government to remove the name of the librettist Béla Balázs from the opera ( Chalmers 1995, 123 ), as he was blacklisted and had left the country for Vienna.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, there was a sense of the music of the country as distinct from that of the town.

The reason for this may have been the wedding of Mieszko ( Judith's brother ) with the Hungarian princess Elisabeth ( daughter of King Béla II ), which sufficiently secured the Polish-Hungarian alliance.

Philip pushed the case further when King Béla III of Hungary asked for the widow's hand in marriage, and thus her dowry had to be returned, to which Henry finally agreed.

In Eastern Europe, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály wrote a small amount of music for choirs.

During the 1070s, a struggle for power commenced between King Solomon and his cousins ( sons of the late Béla I ).

; Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy ( full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ): for outstanding achievements in mathematics.

In 20th-century classical music, written at a time when the use of vibrato was widespread, there is sometimes a specific instruction not to use it ( in some of the string quartets of Béla Bartók for example ).

Béla Lugosi, best known for his role in Dracula, was brought in to provide reference poses for Chernabog.

* Victor Wooten, bassist for the Grammy Award winning " Blu-Bop " group Béla Fleck and the Flecktones

Other composers such as Béla Bartók, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and even some jazz composers such as Yusef Lateef and Bill Evans used serialism only for some of their compositions or only for some sections of pieces.

Many composers famous for their string quartets – such as Joseph Haydn ( pioneer of the quartet genre ), Béla Bartók, Paul Hindemith, and Dmitri Shostakovich – never composed a string quintet.

Some actors, such as Béla Lugosi and Pam Grier, worked in B movies for most of their careers.

In the movement entitled ' The Night's Music ' (' Musiques nocturnes ' in French ) of Out of Doors for solo piano ( 1926 ), Béla Bartók imitated the sounds of nature.

As the purges began, the government ( through the NKVD ) shot Communist heroes, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Béla Kun, as well as the majority of Vladimir Lenin's Politburo, for disagreements in policy.