Béla Bartók ‎– Les Six Quatuors De Bela Bartok, Le Quatuor Bartok De Budapest

Bartók studied piano and harmony in Bratislava and Budapest; He has among his teachers Hans von Koessler , Leo Weiner , and especially Zoltán Kodály , who worked with him from 1905 on the study and transcription of traditional folk music . Bartók became a professor at the Royal Academy of Budapest in 1907, and composed his first major works, Three Hungarian Folk Songs , the first String Quartet of a series of six highly accomplished quartets, his only opera Le Chateau de Barbe-Bleue , And two ballets ( The Prince of Wood and The Wonderful Mandarin ). He then wrote sonatas, other quartets, and toured Europe with Ditta Pástory , a former student who became his second wife. Beginning in 1934, Bartók devoted himself to composition and received frequent commissions : he met a great success in 1937 with Music for Strings, Percussions and Celesta , then the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra or Mikrokosmos . Forced to go into exile in the United States at the time of the war, he stayed in New York , where he met Kousssewitsky, Yehudi Menuhin, Benny Goodman. He died there in 1945 of a leukemia,

The style of Bartók is characterized by a nationalist inspiration coupled with a scholarly musical research : it combats the constraints of the tonal system, uses the principle of proportion for the internal structure of its works, and systematizes the relationship between the tones .