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Hungarian [[composer]] '''Béla Bartók''' (1881-1945) was one of the most prominent innovators of the [[Twentieth Century period (music)|twentieth century]]. Beginning his career as a concert pianist and composer of light music, his life was changed in 1908 when he made a journey with fellow Hungarian Zoltán Kodály into the villages of eastern Europe to record [[folk music]]. He discovered music that bore little resemblance to most Western [[classical music]], in form, rhythm, or [[musical harmony|harmonic]] content, and from then on he developed in his own compositions a unique musical language based on what he had found.
His most-often played works are the ''Music for Strings, CelesteCelesta, and Percussion'' (1936), the ''[[Concerto]] for [[Orchestra]]'' (1944), and his pedagogical six-volume piano work, ''Mikrokosmos'' (1926-1939). His six groundbreaking string quartets are also often performed, and he authored an [[opera]], three [[piano]] concerti, one [[violin]] concerto, and a [[viola]] concerto as well.
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