Bela Bartok - String Quartets - Complete (Emerson String Quartet)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 2 Cd, Cover+Booklet | 888 Mb
Label: DG - Date: 1988

"Through his far-reaching endeavors as composer, performer, educator, and ethnomusicolgist, Bela Bartok emerged as one of the most forceful and influential musical personalities of the twentieth century. Born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary (now Romania), on March 25, 1881, Bartok began his musical training with piano studies at the age of five, foreshadowing his lifelong affinity for the instrument. Following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Music in 1901 and the composition of his first mature works -- most notably, the symphonic poem Kossuth (1903) -- Bartok embarked on one of the classic field studies in the history of ethnomusicology. With fellow countryman and composer Zoltan Kodaly, he traveled throughout Hungary and neighboring countries, collecting thousands of authentic folk songs. Bartok's immersion in this music lasted for decades, and the intricacies he discovered therein, from plangent modality to fiercely aggressive rhythms, exerted a potent influence on his own musical language.

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