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Bela Bartok's Birth
Bartok was born in Nagyszentmiklos in Hungary, what is now modern-day Romania. -
Bartok's Beginning
For his fourth birthday, Bartok's mother gave him his first formal piano lesson. -
Job as Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest
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Bartok begins research on old folk tunes in the countryside of Hungary as professor
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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. -
His Death
Bartok died in the United States of Lukemia.
