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| Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Timeline |
1881 |
Born in Nagyszentmiklós (then part of Hungary, now Romania), 25 March |
1899 |
Enters the Budapest Royal Academy of Music |
1905 |
Begins the first of his travels around Hungary and neighbouring regions, collecting folk songs and dances |
1907 |
Appointed professor at the Royal Academy of Music |
1909 |
Marries one of his students, Márta Ziegler, by whom he has a son, also named Béla |
1918 |
Opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is first big success |
1923 |
Divorces his first wife and marries a concert pianist, Ditta Pásztory, by whom he has a son, Peter |
1940 |
Flees fascist Hungary and World War II, emigrating to the U.S. and settling in New York. |
1945 |
Dies of leukaemia, in New York on 26 September |
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