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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. Henri Matisse		Thursday May 21, 2026
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Emil Haraszti commenting on the music of Bela Bartok: His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct ... these are all echoes ... of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. Bela Bartok

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	Bela Bartok
	(1881-1945) Hungarian composer, concertos, chamber music, influenced by Hungarian peasant music.

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Emil Haraszti commenting on the music of Bela Bartok: His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct ... these are all echoes ... of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.