Biography
Béla Bartók was born in 1881 in Nagyszentmiklós and is among the most influential composers of the twentieth century. Together with Zoltán Kodály, he systematically researched the folk music of Eastern Europe. His sole stage one-act work Bluebeard's Castle (1918) is considered a masterpiece of music theatre. Bartók emigrated in 1940 to the USA and died in 1945 in New York.
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