Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
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Short Biography, Recorded Compositions, Most Popular Works
Suggested Orchestras
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Emerson String Quartet
Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra
Hungarian String Quartet
Juilliard String Quartet
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
New York Philharmonic
Philadelphia Orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Takács String Quartet
Tokyo String Quartet
Suggested Conductors
Bernstein, Leonard
Blomstedt, Herbert
Boulez, Pierre
Celibidache, Sergiu
Chailly, Riccardo
Davis, Sir Andrew
Dohnányi, Christoph
Doráti, Antal
Dutoit, Charles
Fischer, Adám
Fricsay, Ferenc
Gergiev, Valery
Gielen, Michael
Haitink, Bernard
Jansons, Mariss
Järvi, Neeme
Järvi, Paavo
Karajan, Herbert von
Kubelik, Rafael
Mehta, Zubin
Ormandy, Eugene
Ozawa, Seiji
Rattle, Simon
Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Solti, Sir Georg
Suggested
Soloists
Aimard, Pierre-Laurent (piano)
Anda, Géza (piano)
Argerich, Martha (piano)
Ashkenazy, Vladimir (piano)
Bashmet, Yuri (viola)
Chung, Kyung-Wha (violin)
Donohoe, Peter (piano)
Fischer, Annie (piano)
Grimaud, Hélène (piano)
Kavakos, Leonidas (violin)
Kocsis, Zoltán (piano)
Kovacevich, Stephen (piano)
Lipatti, Dinu (piano)
Ma, Yo-Yo (viola)
Menuhin, Yehudi (violin)
Menuhin, Yehudi (viola)
Mullova, Viktoria (violin)
Mutter, Anne-Sophie (violin)
Perlman, Itzhak (violin)
Shaham, Gil (violin)
Sokolov, Valeriy (violin)
Starker, János (viola)
Stern, Isaac (violin)
Szeryng, Henryk (violin)
Xiao, Hong-Mei (viola)