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
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)
Sânnicolau Mare
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Sânnicolau Mare is a town in Timiș County, Romania, and the westernmost in the country. Located in the Banat region, along the borders with Serbia and Hungary, it has a population of 10,627 as of 2021
Béla Bartók
…music and avant-garde music. Bartók was born in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary, part of Austria-Hungary (present-day Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on 25 March 1881. On his father's side, the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsodszirák, Borsod. His…
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Part of the treasure of Nagyszentmiklós in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Sânnicolau Mare (Gros St. Miklosch) on the Josephinische Landesaufnahme of 1769–1772