Ahmet Adnan Saygun
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a Turkish composer and musicologist.
Saygun in his youth
Statue of Saygun at Ahmet Adnan Saygun Arts Center
Béla Bartók
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Béla Viktor János Bartók 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
Ahmet Adnan Saygun
…called him "the grand old man of Turkish music, who was to his country what Jean Sibelius is to Finland, what Manuel de Falla is to Spain, and what Béla Bartók is to Hungary". Saygun's formative years in Turkey coincided with the radical changes in his country's politics and culture as the reforms of Mustafa…
Béla Bartók in 1927
Bartók in his high school graduation photo, in 1899
Bartok and his wife Ditta Pásztory
Béla Bartók using a phonograph to record Slovak folk songs sung by peasants in Zobordarázs (Slovak: Dražovce, today part of Nitra, Slovakia)