BARTK, BLA

born March 25, 1881, Nagyszentmikls, Hung., Austria-Hungary died Sept. 26, 1945, New York, N.Y., U.S. composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher, noted for the Hungarian flavour of his major musical works, which include orchestral works, string quartets, piano solos, several stage works, a cantata, and a number of settings of folk songs for voice and piano. Halsey Stevens The Editors of the Encyclopdia Britannica