Bartok standing

Bela Bartok

By Laureng1213
  • Bela Bartok's Birth

    Bela Bartok's Birth

    Bartok was born in Nagyszentmiklos in Hungary, what is now modern-day Romania.

  • Bartok's Beginning

    For his fourth birthday, Bartok's mother gave him his first formal piano lesson.
  • Job as Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest

    Job as Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest

  • Bartok begins research on old folk tunes in the countryside of Hungary as professor

  • Bartok flees to America

    Because the Nazis took over Hungary, Bartok was pressures into performing in Germany, but he refused and was forced to escape to America.

  • His Death

    Bartok died in the United States of Lukemia.