Life of Bela Bartok

By paytonbrownell
  • Birth of Bela

    Birth of Bela

    Bela Bartok was born march 25, 1881 in Sânnicolau Mare, Romania

  • Bartok's Beginning

    For his fourth birthday, Bartok's mother gave him his first formal piano lesson, starting his life-long career.

  • 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.

  • Bartok's death

    Bartok died in the United States of Lukemia.