Bartok, Bela Biography - A Very Quick Guide

Béla Bartok, born Sînnicolau Mare, 25 March 1881, died New York, 26 September 1945. In 1899 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. By 1905 he had begun to study Hungarian folk music and in 1906 he and Kodaly published a collection of these folk songs. Works include many piano pieces, piano concertos, vocal works, one opera, chamber music and orchestral works.