Bartók Bartok was born on March 25, 1881, in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary.
巴托克于1881年3月25日出生在匈牙利的纳吉圣米克洛斯。
His father was the principal of an agricultural school.
他的父亲是一所农业学校的校长。
However, he received his early music education from his mother who worked as a piano teacher.
然而,他的早期音乐教育是由他的母亲启蒙的,他的母亲是一名钢琴教师。
Many of Bartok's compositions as evident through his use of rhythm, melody and modality are heavily influenced by the folk music of his native region.
许多巴托克的作品,通过他使用的节奏,旋律和形式的运用明显受到了其家乡的民间音乐的影响。
Bartok's contribution to the development and popularization of Hungarian national folk music was immense.
巴托克对匈牙利民族民间音乐的发展和普及做出了巨大的贡献。
In 1907, he began work as director of music at the Budapest Academy of Music where together with Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly.
1907年,他开始在布达佩斯音乐学院担任音乐总监,与匈牙利作曲家佐尔坦·柯达里一起工作。
He collected several thousand Central European Turkish and North African folk melodies, which were then published in two anthologies.
他收集了数千首中欧、土耳其和北非的民歌,并将其收录在两本选集中。
From 1926 to 1939, he developed a six book series of 153 piano teaching pieces entitled Mikrokosmos, which is still used by many piano students today.
从1926年到1939年,他制作出了包含有153首小品,分六册的《小宇宙》(Mikrokosmos)钢琴曲集,至今仍被许多钢琴学生使用。
Bartok had a strong disdain for racism, and in 1949 when Nazism erupted in Germany, he moved his family to America.
巴托克对种族主义有着强烈的蔑视,1949年纳粹主义在德国兴起时,他举家迁往美国。
Unfortunately, there was little interest in the strong Hungarian nationalistic quality of his music, and his remaining years were a struggle.
不幸的是,几乎没有人对他音乐中强烈的匈牙利民族主义感兴趣,他的余生也在挣扎。
In 1943, he was diagnosed with leukemia and died two years later in New York City on September 26, 1945 at the age of 64.
1943年,他被诊断出患有白血病,两年后,也就是1945年9月26日,他在纽约去世,享年64岁。