Bela Bartok Bela Bartok was born on March 25th‚ 1881 in Baratian‚ a small town in Hungary. His father‚ Bela Bartok Sr.‚ belonged to a lower noble family of Hungary though his mother Paula came from a Roman Catholic Serbian family in Serbia. At an early age‚ Bela started showing talent for music and often distinguished rhythms when his mother played the piano. This was before he could even properly speak. At the age of 4‚ he played 40 pieces on the piano and his mother‚ recognizing his
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Research Paper on Bela Bartok............. By Jibin Parayil Thomas (2011B4A7628G) Introduction Bela Bartok (1881-1945) is regarded as a key innovator of the twentieth-century music. He is widely known for compositions strongly influenced by his folk music studies‚ and for his activities as a concert pianist‚ music editor and teacher. The works of Bela Bartok are generally approached from either of two theoretical premises. The first being an extension of
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BARTOK VIOLIN CONCERTO Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 In B Minor‚ SZ 112‚ BB117. (1937-1938) 1. Allegro Non-Troppo 2. Andante Tranquillo 3. Allegro Molto Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist‚ and was one of the most profound musicians of the twentieth century. A smallpox inoculation gave the infant Bartók a rash that remained with him until he was five years old. As a result he spent his early years detached from other children and people and
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Béla Bartók was born in a farming village in Romania in 1881. He had a hard childhood and his father passed away when he was seven. Bartók lived nomadically with his mother‚ sister and a piano teacher. He attended Budapest Academy of Music with concentration in piano and was eventually appointed to the music faculty in 1907 as an ethnomusicology professor. Bartók was a Hungarian nationalist and studied Hungarian folk music. While he composed in all genres‚ he is most known for his interest in folk
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The Piano Concerto The development of keyboard music reached staggering new heights at the turn of the 18th century. It was during this time that the idea of the concerto became a very innovative and popular style of music which combined a large symphony setting and a virtuoso. With the growing popularity of the piano‚ the end of the 18th century saw a new and more innovative genre of piano concertos. However this concerto received a great deal of criticism due to its lack of proper form and
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BELA VIKTOR JANOS BARTOK BORN: March 25‚ 1881 SISTER: Erzsebet Bartok FATHER: Bela Bartok Sr. (Hungarian‚ originated in Borsod County) His father was a headmaster of a local school MOTHER: Paula Voit (Mixed Hungarian‚ originated from Saxons‚ upper Hungary) BORN AT: at a Banatian town in the kingdom of Hungary DEATH: September 26‚ 1945 He died at New York due to Leukemia he was considered to be one of the most important composer of the 20th century Bartok and Liszt was regarded as Hungary’s
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Program Notes By Xiaohan Sun Béla Bartók Born 1881‚ Nagyszentmiklós‚ Hungary Died 1945‚ New York‚ New York Viola Concerto (1945) Bartok left two major concertos unfinished: the Third piano concerto and the Viola Concerto. The former was complete except for the orchestration of the last seventeen measures‚ but the latter required much more extensive work. The manuscript for this unfinished work was given to Bartok’s friend and informal student Tibor Serly‚ who reconstructed the work and prepared
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The Yellow River Piano Concerto Xian Xinghai * Xian was born in 1905 in Pungu in China. * He joined the communist party in 1938 where he composed the Yellow River Cantata. * The Yellow River was considered by the Chinese as the cradle of China’s civilisation and its sorrow. * The cantata was an eight movement work for chorus orchestra and soloists with narration in between. Yellow River Cantata * The cantata aimed to express the troubles of the people who lived on the banks
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rather than the mask I wear to school everyday. Music is one of those very few things in life that listens and can easily influence mood. Words in a song vary from happy to sad to angry and so can an orchestral piece. One of my favorite pieces is Piano Concerto no.2 by Rachmaninoff as it contains different emotions and connections throughout the piece.
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Analysis of the Yellow River Concerto composed by Xian Xinghai‚ arranged by Yin Chengzhong The Yellow River Piano Concerto was a gem of the Chinese culture in the 20th century‚ which was written in the Western classical music form and was highly influenced by the Western music in the romantic era. The traditional Chinese music and 20th century Chinese culture was reflected in the music score almost everywhere. Its Chinese
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