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Bartok was born in Nagyszentmiklos in Hungary, what is now modern-day Romania.
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For his fourth birthday, Bartok's mother gave him his first formal piano lesson.
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Because the Nazis took over Hungary, Bartok was pressures into performing in Germany, but he refused and was forced to escape to America.
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Bartok died in the United States of Lukemia.