Béla Bartók in 1927

Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945 ) was a Hungarian composer and pianist.

Béla 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.

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 was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

His oldest son, Béla Bartók, Jr., remained in Hungary where he survived the war and later worked as a railroad official until his retirement in the early 1980s.

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.

* A statue of Béla Bartók stands in Brussels, Belgium near the central train station in a public square, Spanjeplein-Place d ' Espagne.

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

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Elfman's classical influences include Béla Bartók, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Carl Orff, Harry Partch, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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.

These included Percy Grainger and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England and Béla Bartók in Hungary.

Their early chamber works ( and those of Béla Bartók, who was friendly with Dohnányi ) show a thoroughgoing absorption of the Brahmsian idiom.

He, also in the 1930s, developed close ties with Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály in Hungary, and this is reflected in his own music to some extent.

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The Wagner tuba, a modified member of the horn family, appears in Richard Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and several other works by Richard Strauss, Béla Bartók, and others ; it has a prominent role in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E Major.

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Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

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** Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer ( d. 1945 )

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

Béla Bartók composed the secular Cantata Profana, subtitled " The Nine Splendid Stags " and based on a Romanian folk tale, in 1930.

Emerson has performed several notable rock arrangements of classical compositions, ranging from J. S. Bach via Modest Mussorgsky to 20th century composers such as Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, Leoš Janáček and Alberto Ginastera.

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.

Xenakis, who was by that time well acquainted with music of Debussy, Béla Bartók, and Stravinsky, all of whom used such devices and much more experimental ones, was furious and left to study with Darius Milhaud, but these lessons also proved fruitless.

The best known Concerto for Orchestra is the one by Béla Bartók ( 1943 ), although the title had been used several times before.

An early example of the crumple zone concept was used by the Mercedes-Benz engineer Béla Barényi on the mid 50's Mercedes-Benz " Ponton ".

The title " King of Rama ", referring to the claim to Bosnia, was first used by Béla II of Hungary in 1136.

* barbaro: barbarous ( notably used in Allegro barbaro by Béla Bartók )

It also shows a concern for the concepts of time and memory, both in its use of quotations ( notably from Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten and Jehan Alain ), and in short interludes that recall material used in earlier movements and / or introduce ideas that will be fully developed later.

The terms Nobilissimus ( most noble ) and nobilissima familia ( most noble family ) have been used since the 11th century for the King of Hungary and his family, but at that time only a few, among them Béla I, which were mentioned in official documents as such.

The random-dot stereogram technique, already known since 1919, was much used by Dr. Béla Julesz and it, along with additional research, lead to publication of an influential book detailing his theories and work on the basis of human stereo vision entitled Foundations of Cyclopean Perception.

This approach, inspired by Béla Bartók, continues to be used by Canadian composers today.

For " Ruins ", Frith used Fibonacci numbers to establish beat and harmony, after reading about Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's use of the Fibonacci series.

* Béla: The name of pagan origin was given to four medieval Kings of Hungary and nowadays is still commonly used.

The direct predecessor of the current coat of arms of Slovakia can be found in the coat of arms used by Béla, the prince of the Nitrian frontier principality ( 1046 – 1060 ) and later the king of the Kingdom of Hungary.

It was only 100 years later, around 1189, that the double cross is known to have been used again – it was used during a crusade of the Hungarian king Béla III as his royal symbol.

King Béla IV used the patriarchal cross again – the reasons for this decision are unknown.

Béla is an alcoholic ; he used to drive trains on the surface until he crashed a train due to " lack of braking distance ".

* Béla Bartók, Rhapsody No. 1 and Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and piano ( also arranged for orchestra ).

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.

* Rhapsody on Folk Songs Harmonized by Béla Bartók for Viola and Orchestra ( 1946 – 48 )