Bela Barok Research Paper

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According to classical.net on March 25, 1881 one of the most important composers during the 20th century was born, his name was Bela Bartok. Bela was born in the Romanian town in Timis County called Sânnicolau Mare. His nationality was Hungarian, considering where he was born, also the fact that the town is so close to the borders of Serbia and Hungary. “He was a child prodigy with great music skills, which his mother recognized very early on,” Says thefamouspeople.com. Bartok had many talents not only being a composer and pianist, he was also an excessively quick learner. He began to show his great love of music in his early years as a child. According to thefamouspeople.com “it was said that he shown this love before he even began talking he could distinguish between different tunes of dance rhythms his mother played on the piano.” By the age of four Bela had already learnt to play more than 40 piano pieces (thefamouspeople.com). Seeing this accomplishment his family made the decision to get …show more content…

He was born into a family that had quite the musical influence. “Bela’s father came from a lower noble family and he considered himself a thorough Hungarian.” Paula, his mother, came from a diverse Hungarian origin German being a part of it, but she was also quite fluent in Hungarian. Losing his father at the young age of seven, his mother played a very important role in his lifetime being his only parent, “it was she who gave him his initial lessons and encouraged his skills and she was also his first teacher who started teaching him when he was five years old.” After Bela’s father’s death, his mother took him and his sister, Erzsebet, to Vinogradiv, Ukraine. Where Bartok gave his first public performance at the early age of eleven. “The piece performed was named “The course of the Danube which was highly appreciated by the audience.” This performance started what was about to change Bartok’s life forever.

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