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Оглавление(1881–1945)
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (1918)
Born in a part of Hungary which is now Romania, Bartók was one of the pioneer figures of 20th-century music, forging a new musical style from the folk traditions of his native country that owes nothing to the two composer-giants who are generally considered the great originators of modernity, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Most of his work was instrumental and orchestral, with a set of six string quartets that rank as the most significant of their kind since Beethoven, and major concert scores like the Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Percussion, Strings and Celesta. His involvement with the stage was limited and Duke Bluebeard’s Castle his only opera, although he did subsequently produce two ballet scores, The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin. He left Hungary for America in 1940 and died there in financially straitened circumstances five years later.
