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Bartok was born in Hungary in 1881 and was performing his own piano compositions in public aged just nine. His life in music was colourful and diverse; he was composer, concert pianist, educator, and Ethnomusicologist (before the word existed!). He spent his early professional years in Hungary, completing his studies in 1903 at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest. He was later appointed a member of the faculty in 1907.
Nationalist pride swept through Hungary during Bartok’s student days and this led him to explore traditional Hungarian folk music, discovering that it was in fact the music of the Roma community. Thus began a
