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Béla Bartók

1881 - 1945

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Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Bartók has received more than 2,446,164 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Béla Bartók is the 40th most popular composer (up from 41st in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Romania and the most popular Romanian Composer.

Béla Bartók is most famous for his compositions of folk music from Eastern Europe.

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  • 76.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Béla Bartók ranks 40 out of 1,216. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Johann Strauss I, Modest Mussorgsky, and Jean Sibelius. After him are Camille Saint-Saëns, Guido of Arezzo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gaetano Donizetti, Tomaso Albinoni, and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Béla Bartók ranks 6. Before him are Pablo Picasso, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Alexander Fleming, Pope John XXIII, and Stefan Zweig. After him are Anna Pavlova, Kliment Voroshilov, Lu Xun, Enver Pasha, Hans Kelsen, and Ludwig von Mises. Among people deceased in 1945, Béla Bartók ranks 9. Before him are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anne Frank, Heinrich Himmler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, and Martin Bormann. After him are Thomas Hunt Morgan, Fedor von Bock, Walter Model, Magda Goebbels, Anton Webern, and Subhas Chandra Bose.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Béla Bartók ranks 3 out of 665. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431) and Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918). After him are Alaric I (376), Eugène Ionesco (1909), John Hunyadi (1407), Stephen Báthory (1533), Emil Cioran (1911), Tristan Tzara (1896), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Michael I of Romania (1921), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

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Among COMPOSERS In Romania

Among composers born in Romania, Béla Bartók ranks 1. After him are György Ligeti (1923), Iannis Xenakis (1922), George Enescu (1881), Ion Ivanovici (1845), Vladimir Cosma (1940), György Kurtág (1926), Bálint Bakfark (1507), Péter Eötvös (1944), Sándor Végh (1912), and Sándor Veress (1907).

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