Same here. My life overlapped his by about 3-1/2 years but of course I knew nothing of him then (though I was already into Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky). When I was almost 14 we moved to a univ. town with a great LP store and the proprietor befriended me (my first purchase was Art of the Fugue). I don't know whether I happened into the store on the right day or he somehow intuited what I would want to hear: I heard a Bartok string quartet playing that day. Soon I had heard them all, and I still love them and almost all of Bartok's music. More than that, though, for reasons I cannot explain I fell in love with the man, the human being, and I still love him. I wish that I had somehow been able to meet him.
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Two of my heroes, Bartok and Schiff. Wish I were in NY to see this series.
Same here. My life overlapped his by about 3-1/2 years but of course I knew nothing of him then (though I was already into Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky). When I was almost 14 we moved to a univ. town with a great LP store and the proprietor befriended me (my first purchase was Art of the Fugue). I don't know whether I happened into the store on the right day or he somehow intuited what I would want to hear: I heard a Bartok string quartet playing that day. Soon I had heard them all, and I still love them and almost all of Bartok's music. More than that, though, for reasons I cannot explain I fell in love with the man, the human being, and I still love him. I wish that I had somehow been able to meet him.
Thank you for posting these intelligent and informative videos.
Yes, the loss of Bartók at so young an age, is a loss to humanity.
Actually Bartok left Hungary because his wife Ditta was jewish.
That's a popular legend, but Ditta's parents were Lutheran and Greek Catholic, respectively.
that's not right.