Bartók's music reflects two trends that dramatically changed the sound of music in the 20th century: the breakdown of the diatonic system of harmony that had served composers for the previous two hundred years ( Griffiths 1978, 7 ); and the revival of nationalism as a source for musical inspiration, a trend that began with Mikhail Glinka and Antonín Dvořák in the last half of the 19th century ( Einstein 1947, 332 ).

It has been speculated that Bartók's previous work, the String Quartet No. 6 ( 1939 ), could well have been his last were it not for this commission, which sparked a small number of other compositions, including his Sonata for Solo Violin and Piano Concerto No. 3.

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

Concerto for Orchestra quickly became Bartók's most popular work, although he did not live to see its full impact.

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 ".

* January 13-Béla Bartók's symphonic poem Kossuth is premiered in Budapest, becoming his first major work to be performed

The work was written in response to a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation ( run by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky ) following Bartók's move to the United States from his native Hungary, which he had fled because of World War II.

The work was at least in part inspired by Bartók's unrequited love for the violinist Stefi Geyer-in a letter to her, he called the first movement a " funeral dirge " and its opening notes trace a motif which first appeared in his Violin Concerto No. 1, a work dedicated to Geyer and suppressed by Bartók for many years.

The work is even more harmonically adventurous and contrapuntally complex than Bartók's previous two string quartets and explores a number of extended instrumental techniques, including sul ponticello ( playing with the bow as close as possible to the bridge ), col legno ( playing with the wood rather than the hair of the bow ), glissandi ( sliding from one note to another ) and the so-called Bartók pizzicato ( plucking the string so that it rebounds against the instrument's fingerboard ).

His work bringing Bartók's work to fruition has paid off in the sense that his works are often paired with those of his better known teacher, on recordings and in live performance.

She was unfailingly critical of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelík, described Janáček's orchestral work Taras Bulba as " trash " and even called Bartók's classic Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta a " potboiler ".

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.

However, in Bartók's file blueprint the final title is found, and because it is believed to have been the composer's later thought, it is retained in the revised edition of the score.

Heseltine had publicised Bartók's music for several years, but his friendship with the composer appears not to have survived beyond the Wales visit.

In 1998 he won the violin prize at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg for his interpretation of Bartók's solo sonata, and his Bartók interpretations have won him wide recognition.

Overcoming fierce opposition, his intervention made it possible for Béla Bartók's works to have their first performance in Budapest.

As his body slowly failed, Bartók found more creative energy, and he produced a final set of masterpieces, partly thanks to the violinist Joseph Szigeti and the conductor Fritz Reiner ( Reiner had been Bartók's friend and champion since his days as Bartók's student at the Royal Academy ).

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.

The Takács Quartet's interpretation of Bartók's six string quartets has been met with praise.

The resemblance has been variously interpreted as an accusation of tastelessness, as a commentary on the symphony's over-popularity in Bartók's eyes, and as an acknowledgment of the position of the artist in a totalitarian society.

He has also been involved with many early recordings and performances of both solo and orchestral works including J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto # 2, Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, Aaron Copland's Quiet City, Joseph Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet in Eb, Alexander Scriabin's The Poem of Ecstasy, Georg Philipp Telemann's Concerto for Trumpet in D, and Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets in C.

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

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

* April 8-Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 5 is premiered in Washington, D. C.

* March 3-Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premiered in Budapest

* March 19-Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest

He participated with the Hungarian String Quartet in the first Hungarian performance of Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 5.

31, British premieres, including Berg's Wozzeck and Three Movements from the Lyric Suite, and world premieres, including Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 4 in F minor and Bartók's Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

* 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

* July 1-Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting.

* 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.

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

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

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.

In Béla Bartók's Bagatelles, and several of Alfredo Casella's Nine Piano Pieces such as No. 4 " In Modo Burlesco " the close intervallic relationship between motive and chord creates or justifies the great harmonic dissonance.

Returning to the United States from Jerusalem in 1963, he made his debut with the New York Philharmonic, playing Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2.

Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz.

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.

Mr. Mann has conducted throughout his professional career ; he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a Peter Bartók recording of Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 1.