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Among Bartók's most important works are the six string quartets (1909, 1917, 1927, 1928, 1934, and 1939), the Cantata Profana (1930), which Bartók declared was the work he felt and professed to be his most personal "credo", the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936), the Concerto for Orchestra (1943) and the Third Piano Concerto (1945).
Béla Bartók is most famous for his piano compositions which included the Sonata for Two Pianos and percussion (1937), the Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938), the Piano Concertos No.1 and No.2, and the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936).
- March 25, 1881
- September 26, 1945
From the Concerto For Orchestra to Bluebeard's Castle, here are Béla Bartók's greatest works in outstanding recordings from Pierre Boulez, Susanna Mälkki, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich and more.
In the subsequent years, Bartók composed a number of significant works, including two ballets, The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin, and several major orchestral works. He also started a series of six string quartets, which are considered among his most impressive achievements.
Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Bartók is considered one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. He was one of the pioneers in the field of ethnomusicology, the anthropology or ethnography of music .
He is also considered one of the most important composers of the 20thcentury. His major musical works include orchestra, string quartets, piano solos, an opera, a cantata, some ballets, and several folk songs for voice and piano.
Two of his major works in the 1930s – 44 Duos for violin, and Mikrokosmos, six books of graded, short pieces for piano – were pedagogical. Among his students were several famous pianists and the pianist/ conductor Georg Solti.