The 26 September 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, who became famous not only for his ...

Composer Bela Bartok collects field recordings of folk songs from Czech peasants. It moved him deeply. From that moment on, the 23-year-old dedicated himself to the collection, study and presentation ...

Ambivalent: the mysterious figure of Béla Bartók, pictured in 1939 Credit: Photo: Roger Viollet Of all the great modernist composers who shattered the musical consensus in the years before the First ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been listening to some of my favorite Bartok, in particular his amazing, complex Concerto for Orchestra and his second piano concerto. I have been drawn to his music for ...

The KSO string section present the music of Bartok alongside Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s “Primal Message”. Concertmaster William Shaub and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra string section present the music ...

Banjo wizard Béla Fleck has crafted a fascinating career from infiltration. He's embedded his instrument in musical zones from jazz to classical to West African music. Now he's written himself a ...

One of the great composers of the early 20th century, Béla Bartók was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. Bartók collected folk music from Slovakia, Transylvania and his native ...

The revolutionaries of early 20th-century music may not be well-loved, but at least they’re well-known. Everyone can recognise the gnomelike figure of Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg is famous ...