Zoltán Kodály
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Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education.
Kodály in the 1930s
Statue of Kodály at Szent István square in Pécs, Hungary
Commemorative plaque in Andrássy Avenue, Budapest
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
Zoltán Kodály
…he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, "Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong". At around this time Kodály met fellow composer and compatriot Béla Bartók, whom he took under his wing and introduced to some of the methods involved in folk song collecting. The two became lifelong friends and champions of…
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)