Bela Bartok Quotes:- Bela Bartok (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary’s greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology.
Inspirational Bela Bartok Quotes
“Competitions are for horses, not artists.”
Bela Bartok
“In art, there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.”
Bela Bartok
“I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.”
Bela Bartok
“It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.”
Bela Bartok
“Folk melodies are the embodiment of artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.”
Bela Bartok
“With maturity comes the wish to economize – to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.”
Bela Bartok
“His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.”
Bela Bartok
