Abstract

Bela Bartok (1881-1945) is a Hungarian composer, pianist, musician and musicologist and is also a composer with the most original and personal style in the twentieth century’s modernism. Romanticism in music drew to an end at the end of Nineteenth century, and musical styles in terms of the collapse of tonality emerged; French Impressionism, Nationalism in Music, Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system and neo-classicalism were created. Offspring scholars categorized Bartok into post-tonality, Nationalism and neo-classicalism. However, whatever music schools, Bartok actually created a new road for himself - folk music. He collected and researched thousands of folk music all his life, including Hungary, Romania, Transylvania, and even North Africa. Broad perspective makes Bartok’s works filled with originality and the spirit of brotherhood and takes a place in music history. It is of great significance to study Bartok’s piano music for contacting and understanding the music in the twentieth century. With the background of the era Bartok lived in, this paper explores the impact of diverse music in the twentieth century on Bartok, furthermore to understand Bartok’s life and musical style evolution and finally analyzes and interprets Bartok’s “Piano Sonata” Sz. 80 so as to learn the style of the unique music composer.

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