Great Composers: Béla Bartók

A look at the founder of ethnomusicology.
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Classical Nerd is a weekly video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- Béla Bartók: Piano Suite, op. 14, performed by Luís Sarro
[free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, Op. 1 No. 2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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[@mikeytaylor3901]

One of those composers who deserves a bit longer of a video

[@imnothuman.5868]

In case anybody was wondering, the piece in the background is Bartók's op. 14 Piano Suite.

[@tteerabeats9116]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@mamahmarika]

That’s my great grand uncle. So cool to watch this. Thanks!!

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Absolutely brilliant information. I don't think you realise what an amazing job you are doing in educating people about classical music. Long may this continue.

[@wadaries]

And really entertaining, hahaha I’m clapping my hands all the time, one thing I’m not sure though is the pronunciation of the foreign names, which was the very reason why I started, hahaha

[@Cadenza93]

Channels like yours are what makes KZbin a powerful tool for education, thank you so much for posting this content !

[@donna25871]

For anyone interested I would highly recommend a visit to the Museum of Music History in Budapest. They have on display artifacts from the collecting tours that Bartok and Kodály undertook together in the decade preceding WWI. I just found it incredible at everything they carried (including a gramophone and wax cylinders) to record everything as they walked hundreds of miles through Greater Hungary. These recordings have been released - you can hear them on Spotify. Bartok started the ethnomusicology department at the Liszt Academy that Kodály took over when Bartok emigrated to the US.

[@soozb15]

Thanks for the tip! I'm visiting Budapest for the first time in the Autumn and will definitely go to this museum.

[@ClassicalNerd]

Surprise! Next Thursday's video is already out. I'm on a vacation with no guaranteed Internet access for a Thursday upload, and I'd rather be early than late, so enjoy!

[@RichardASalisbury1]

Thank you for this. I would've been even more pleased if your coverage of his last period, in the USA, mentioned his sonata for solo violin, surely one of his masterpieces, and one of the greatest achievements of its kind since Bach.

[@williamrobinson6059]

Having a blast binging your videos.

[@michaljuricka]

Thank you so much man - this quality content is really helping me study for my final school exams! Thank you

[@suzannedeette]

Thank you! You pack an enormous amount of information into a mere seven minutes!

[@christopherwildman7638]

Great summation. Thank you.

[@keybawd4023]

A superb summary of Bartok's life and music.

[@jasonkokoszka7357]

I just recently discovered your channel, and I honestly love the content you provide here. Informative, interesting, well-researched, and your touches of humor make some videos in this series entertaining as well. The biographical and theoretical videos are certainly giving me plenty to think about to help with my own compositional ideas and efforts. I realize you have recently posted a statement to the effect that there will be a delay before the next biographical video, but I wanted to submit a suggestion to make one about Zoltan Kodaly (if you have one already I must've missed it on the list). Anyway, thank you so much for all that you do. I'm really grateful for your content here.

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@brendaboykin3281]

Thanx, Maestro 🌹🌹🌹

[@curtpiazza1688]

Interesting intro to composers!

[@dreadmirror985]

I always wondered what those insane bass stabs in violin concerto no 2. Love that piece

[@VictorRice]

Excellent summary! Though I would beg to differ about the "Bartók pizzicato" - albeit very percussive, they're definitely tonal.

[@AntoineSoler]

You deserve more view !

[@ammachi_wid_luv8507]

No worries he will get more views soon..Army is gonna flood this place trust me😂😂

[@voidvisir]

I was checking infos about the composer for an exam i have and... wow! you surely deserve more viewers! keep going like this! :D

[@boysfromthe3158]

Yo we have the same last name

[@voidvisir]

@@boysfromthe3158 that’s strange, are you from Italy/italian origins?

[@lizzy.hilliard]

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[@markpaterson2053]

I love Zoltan Kodaly too. His music language program is in the movie Close Encounters...

[@MrFandeloquendo]

great video my mane

[@MrFandeloquendo]

man*

[@nanthilrodriguez]

Please revisit Bartok with more than just a brief biography

[@noemibaki7276]

Nice video! Your channel helps a lot to prepare for my music history exams. Are you planning to make a video about Zoltál Kodály?

[@ClassicalNerd]

It's not so much "planning" and more "how many requests I've gotten." Yours is the fourth: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@markpaterson2053]

Such a power house of an artist, his Miraculous Mandarin blew me away when I was a teenager getting sick of my mates talk about Adam in the Ants (no offense meant to POP fans).

[@reecerivalland1528]

could you make a video on Tchaikovsky

[@ClassicalNerd]

It's already in the queue!

[@viola4344]

Mahler used the snap pizz.

[@krzysztofq7420]

I was going to watch your video on Franz Liszt, but I cant find it, i guess You didnt make it yet?

[@ClassicalNerd]

I had one up, but the production value was so poor that I took it down and plan on re-making it.

[@ValzainLumivix]

@@ClassicalNerd When is it coming?

[@ClassicalNerd]

@@ValzainLumivix At some point.

[@ValzainLumivix]

@@ClassicalNerd Can't wait

[@loljalesiapp5059]

I don't know if Bela Bartok was in Romania, but he made Romanian dances

[@luchadorito]

He collected music from Transylvania which was at the time part of Hungary(now Romania) and which had a mixed population of ethnic Hungarians and Romanians(and also saxons, gypsies, jews and székely people).

[@neo-eclesiastul9386]

The viola killed him! That's why nobody wants to play the viola

[@AndyBakerUK]

Wasn't the fibonacci thing based on one guy's theory - and has been subsequently debunked?

[@ClassicalNerd]

It's something that I was taught while studying Bartók's music during composition seminars. But I was a wee baby undergrad when I made this tiny li'l video and I'm sure there are competing/alternative explanations.

[@torontoash45]

Bartok for me was extremely boring to both study and listen to .. I find composers like dvorak and smetana much better

[@rainyday6430]

good thing everyone is entitled to their own opinion! I feel almost the opposite way lol