Person/Béla Bartók

• Béla Bartók

  • About

    • Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist (18/8/1–1945).
    • Collected and studied Hungarian folk music with Person/Zoltán Kodály. The two found that old Hungarian folk melodies were based on pentatonic scales.
    • The music analyst Ernő Lendvai describes his works as built partly on the acoustic scale.