Bartók in a sentence

On 18 March 2016 Decca Classics released Béla Bartók: The Complete Works, the first ever complete compilation of all of Bartók's compositions, including new recordings of never-before-recorded early piano and vocal works.

Conductor Ward Stare's ambitious program might more accurately be titled "Great Hits of 20th-Century Modernism": fascinating music from the three composers of the so-called "Second Viennese School," plus a masterpiece by Béla Bartók.

The remainder of the season features music of Bartók and an intriguing number of French composers: Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Debussy, Poulenc, and more.

After joining them in 1942, their son, Péter Bartók, enlisted in the United States Navy where he served in the Pacific during the remainder of the war and later settled in Florida where he became a recording and sound engineer.

After nearly 15 years together, Bartók divorced Márta in June 1923.

After the Nazis came to power in the early 1930s, Bartók refused to give concerts in Germany and broke away from his publisher there.

Although Bartók claimed in his writings that his music was always tonal, he rarely uses the chords or scales of tonality, and so the descriptive resources of tonal theory are of limited use.

Bartók also wrote the noteworthy Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs in 1920, and the sunny Dance Suite in 1923, the year of his second marriage.

Bartók and Kodály quickly set about incorporating elements of such Magyar peasant music into their compositions.

Bartók assigned opus numbers to his works three times, the last of these series ending with the Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, Op. 21 in 1921.

Bartók had a diverse ancestry.

Bartók's economic difficulties during his first years in America were mitigated by publication royalties, teaching and performance tours.

Bartók's only opera, this intense psychological drama is one of his most important works.

Bartók's style in his art music compositions was a synthesis of folk music, classicism, and modernism.

Bartók was a proud man and did not easily accept charity.

Bluebeard's Castle received only one revival, in 1936, before Bartók emigrated.

In 1907, Bartók began teaching as a piano professor at the Royal Academy.

In an interview in 1939 Bartók said Debussy's great service to music was to reawaken among all musicians an awareness of harmony and its possibilities.

In Bartók's Contrasts, the violin is tuned G -D-A-E to facilitate the playing of tritones on open strings.

In Béla Bartók Essays, edited by Benjamin Suchoff, 340–44.