Bela Bartok 1881-1945

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Bela Bartok1881-1945

• Hungerian Composer born in Banat.
• Talented in music from a very young age
• Formal training began at age 4
• 1899-1903 Student at the Royal Academy of Music
• Met Zoltán Kodály
• 1902 Met Richard Strauss- major influence
• 1904 Fascination with folk music began
• String Quartet No. 1 (1908)
• 1907 Began teaching at the Academy

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Bela Bartok1881-1945

• 1908-Expedition to collect
• Hungarian folk melodies
• Pentatonic, Oriental folk traditions
• Immediately began being used in their comps.
• 1911-Bluebeards Castle (only opera)
• Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian, Algerian and
  Bulgarian folk music collected.
• WW1 outbreak- returned to composition
• The Wooden Prince
• String Quartet No. 2

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Bela Bartok1881-1945

• 1918 The Miraculous Mandarin
• 1936- travels to Turkey to study
• folk music
• WW2-Emmigrated to the United States.
• Known in US as pianist, music historian and
  teacher, but not composer.
• 1944 Diagnosed with Leukemia

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Bartoks Music

• First Hungarian Composer
• Bartok pizzicato
• Ethnomusicology
• Concerto for Orchestra
• Bluebeards Castle
• Only two people on stage
• Unstagable
• Colored lights as part of libretto
• Miraculous Mandarin
• One act ballet
• Banned because it caused a scandal

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Charles Ives1874-1954

• Born in Danbury Connecticut
• Taught by father
• Age 14-church organist
• 1894-Yale
• 1899 Charles H. Raymond Co.
• Composed and worked as an organist in spare time.
  
• 1927-Stopped composing
• Revised works

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Style

• Bitonality-two keys at once
• Development of American patriotic songs
• 11 note chord
• The Unanswered Question 1906
• Premiered 1940
• The contemplation of a serious matter
• Three separate components
• String orchestra "the silences of the druidswho
  know, see and hear nothing."
• Solo trumpet, placed behind audience "The
  Invisible Answer"
• 4 flutes "The Perennial Question of Existence"