BARTÓK, BÉLA

BÉLA BARTÓK (Born in Nagy Szent Miklós, Hungary, 1881 — Died in New York, 1945) Bartók’s native village was in Hungary at the time of his birth, but it became part of Romania after World War I. Most of Bartók’s teenage years however, were spent in Bratislavia, now part of Czechoslovakia. Although he studied at the Royal Academy in Budapest and learned the classical style of Beethoven and the romantic-nationalistic style of the “Russian Five,” his form of composition was always colored by the…