Having first sent his manuscripts out of the country, Bartók reluctantly emigrated to the U. S. with Ditta Pásztory-Bartók in October that year.

The Viola Concerto was revised and polished in the 1990s by Bartók's son, Peter ; this version may be closer to what Bartók intended ( Chalmers 1995, 210 ).

* 1995 The New York Album – Works of Albert, Bartók & Bloch ( Sony 57961 )

* Lutoslawski, Bartók, Helweg ( 1995 )

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

In 1909 at the age of 28, Bartók married Márta Ziegler ( 1893 – 1967 ), aged 16.

In 1927 – 28, Bartók wrote his third and fourth string quartets, after which his compositions demonstrate his mature style.

* 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 ".

* 1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer ( d. 1945 )

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.

Other examples of composers ' historically-inconsistent opus number usages include the cases of César Franck ( 1822 – 1890 ) and Béla Bartók ( 1881 – 1945 ) who initially enumerated, but then discontinued enumerating, their compositions.

Under Boulez the orchestra recorded mostly twentieth century music – works by Bartók, Berg, Schoenberg and Boulez himself, and also Berlioz.

* 1993 Béla Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata profana – Pierre Boulez, conductor ; John Aler & John Tomlinson, soloists ; Karl-August Naegler, producer ( Deutsche Grammophon )

* 1960 Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta – Fritz Reiner, conductor ( RCA )

* 1993 Béla Bartók: The Wooden Prince – Pierre Boulez, conductor ( Deutsche Grammophon )

* 1993 Béla Bartók: Cantata profana – Chicago Symphony Chorus ; Margaret Hillis, director ; Pierre Boulez, conductor ( Deutsche Grammophon )

* 1998 Béla Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle – Jessye Norman & László Polgár, principal soloists ; Pierre Boulez, conductor ; Roger Wright, producer ( Deutsche Grammophon )

* 1993 Béla Bartók: The Wooden Prince & Cantata profana – Pierre Boulez, conductor ; Rainer Maillard, engineer ( Deutsche Grammophon )

Xenakis's compositions from 1949 – 52 were mostly inspired by Greek folk melodies, as well as Bartók, Ravel, and others ; after studying with Messiaen, he discovered serialism and gained a deep understanding of contemporary music ( Messiaen's other pupils at the time included, for example, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Jean Barraqué ).

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* Béla Bartók ( 1881 – 1945 ), composer and pianist, lived at 3242 Cambridge Avenue.

In 1917 – 18 Heseltine's passion for Celtic culture, stimulated by his stay in Ireland, brought a new element to his music, and in 1921 he discovered Bartók.

* Béla Bartók * ( 1881 – 1945 ), composer, pianist, scholar ; his remains were moved to Farkasreti Cemetery in Budapest, Hungary in 1988

For twenty years – first in Barcelona and then in exile in England – Gerhard cultivated, and enormously enriched, a modern tonal idiom with a pronounced Spanish-folkloric orientation that descended on the one hand from Pedrell and Falla, and on the other from such contemporary masters as Bartók and Stravinsky.

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 ).

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

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 ).

In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey ; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques ( Botstein, § 6 ).

49, BB 63 by Béla Bartók, uncredited on US release of Emerson Lake & Palmer ( credited on the British Manticore re-pressing of the original LP, on the back cover of the LP jacket ).

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 ).

Important 20th century works have been written for string orchestra by Bartók ( Divertimento for String Orchestra ), Stravinsky ( Apollo ), Witold Lutosławski ( Musique funèbre ), Benjamin Britten ( Simple Symphony and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge ), Charles Wuorinen ( Grand Bamboula ), and Malcolm Williamson ( Symphony No. 7 ).

Furthermore Bartók headed it " Presentando le coppie " ( Presentation of the couples ), not " Giuoco delle coppie " ( Game of the couples ).

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 ).

* Chapman, Roger E. " The Fifth Quartet of Béla Bartók ", Music Review ( 1951 ).

In the third movement, Bartók sometimes indicates held notes to be played without vibrato, and in various places he asks for glissandi ( sliding from one note to another ) and so-called Bartók pizzicati ( a pizzicato where the string rebounds against the instrument's fingerboard ).

* Bartók: The Six String Quartets ( Decca 289 455 297-2 ) ( 1998 ).

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

Concertos and concert works for two pianos have been written by Bach ( two to four pianos, BWV 1060-65, actually harpsichord concertos, but often performed on pianos ), Mozart ( two, K 242 ( originally for three pianos and orchestra ) and K 365 ), Mendelssohn ( two, 1823-4 ), Bruch ( 1912 ), Béla Bartók ( 1927 / 1932, a reworking of his Sonata for two pianos and percussion ), Poulenc ( 1932 ), Arthur Benjamin ( 1938 ), Peter Mieg ( 1939-41 ), Darius Milhaud ( 1941 and 1951 ), Bohuslav Martinů ( 1943 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( c. 1946 ), Roy Harris ( 1946 ), Gian Francesco Malipiero ( two works, both 1957 ), Walter Piston ( 1959 ), Luciano Berio ( 1973 ), and Harald Genzmer ( 1990 ).

Béla Bartók used it in his Rhapsody # 1 for violin and orchestra ( 1928 ).

" 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 ).

Béla Bartók is noted for his use of arch form, e. g., in his Fourth and Fifth string quartets, Concerto for Orchestra, Second Piano Concerto, and, to a lesser extent, in his Second Violin Concerto ( ibid ).

Cyclic tonal progressions in the works of Romantic composers such as Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner form a link with the cyclic pitch successions in the atonal music of Modernists such as Béla Bartók, Alexander Scriabin, Edgard Varèse, and the Second Viennese School ( Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern ).

* Bluebeard's Castle ( 1952 ; translation of the libretto by Béla Balázs for the opera by Béla Bartók ).