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Béla Bartók

1881 - 1945

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Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Among his notable works are the opera Bluebeard's Castle, the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, the Concerto for Orchestra and six string quartets. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Bartók is the 36th most popular composer (up from 41st in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Romania (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Composer.

Béla Bartók is most famous for his compositions of folk music from Eastern Europe.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Béla Bartók ranks 36 out of 1,451. Before him are Dmitri Shostakovich, Ennio Morricone, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, and Jean Sibelius. After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Saint-Saëns, Johann Strauss I, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Antonio Salieri.

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Among people born in 1881, Béla Bartók ranks 6. Before him are Pablo Picasso, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Pope John XXIII, Alexander Fleming, and Stefan Zweig. After him are Alexander Kerensky, Roger Martin du Gard, Lu Xun, Cecil B. DeMille, Anna Pavlova, and Enver Pasha. Among people deceased in 1945, Béla Bartók ranks 8. Before him are Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anne Frank, Heinrich Himmler, and Eva Braun. After him are Martin Bormann, Anton Webern, Fedor von Bock, Walter Model, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Vidkun Quisling.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Béla Bartók ranks 4 out of 844. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431), Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918), and Leo I the Thracian (401). After him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Michael I of Romania (1921), Stephen Báthory (1533), Alaric I (376), Emil Cioran (1911), John Hunyadi (1407), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

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Among COMPOSERS In Romania

Among composers born in Romania, Béla Bartók ranks 1. After him are György Ligeti (1923), George Enescu (1881), Iannis Xenakis (1922), Ion Ivanovici (1845), György Kurtág (1926), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Péter Eötvös (1944), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Sándor Veress (1907), and Sándor Végh (1912).

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