- 1. How many piano pieces did Bartók write between the ages of 9 and 13?
A) 31
B) 1902
C) 14
D) 10
- 2. What was the name of Bartók's ten-part programmatic work written between 1890 and 1894?
A) The Course of the Danube
B) Kossuth
C) Fourteen Bagatelles
D) Bluebeard's Castle
- 3. Which composer's tone poem revitalized Bartók's creative energies in 1902?
A) Claude Debussy
B) Johannes Brahms
C) Robert Schumann
D) Richard Strauss
- 4. Which specific work by Richard Strauss did Bartók transcribe for the piano?
A) Bluebeard's Castle
B) Ein Heldenleben
C) Kossuth
D) Also sprach Zarathustra
- 5. What is the subject of Bartók's 1903 symphonic poem Kossuth?
A) Transylvanian folk legends
B) The life of Bach
C) The 1848 Hungarian war of independence
D) The Danube River
- 6. What event in 1904 sparked Bartók's lifelong devotion to folk music?
A) A public recital in 1892
B) Meeting Ferruccio Busoni
C) Overhearing his nanny singing Transylvanian folk songs
D) Reading the scores of Wagner
- 7. What was the name of the nanny who sang the folk songs that influenced Bartók?
A) No name given
B) Magyar peasant
C) Lidi Dósa
D) Carpathian singer
- 8. In his writing about folk music, to which composer did Bartók compare his method of adding accompaniment to peasant melodies?
A) Bach
B) Strauss
C) Wagner
D) Debussy
- 9. In what year did Bartók first become acquainted with the music of Debussy?
A) 1908
B) 1903
C) 1907
D) 1911
- 10. According to Bartók in 1939, what was the 'great service' Debussy provided to music?
A) Revealing the significance of counterpoint
B) Reawakening an awareness of harmony
C) Developing progressive forms
D) Creating a synthesis of folk music
- 11. Which work of Bartók's led Ferruccio Busoni to exclaim, 'At last something truly new!'?
A) Fourteen Bagatelles
B) Bluebeard's Castle
C) Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
D) Kossuth
- 12. What caused Bartók to focus on folk music research and abandon composition after 1911?
A) A lack of inspiration from Strauss
B) The negative reception of his work
C) The start of the war
D) A desire to retire from music
- 13. Which composers' styles did Bartók's compositions resemble during his time in Catholic grammar school?
A) Debussy and Strauss
B) Liszt and Chopin
C) Bach and Wagner
D) Schumann and Brahms
- 14. What did Bartók consider to be his 'musical mother tongue' regarding peasant music?
A) The completely absorbed idiom
B) The imitation of a peasant melody
C) The unchanged peasant melody
D) The accompanying phrases
- 15. How old was Bartók when he married Márta Ziegler in 1909?
A) 42
B) 28
C) 19
D) 16
- 16. Who was Bartók's second wife?
A) Ahmet Adnan Saygun
B) Béla Balázs
C) Ditta Pásztory
D) Márta Ziegler
- 17. In what year did Bartók convert to Unitarianism?
A) 1916
B) 1923
C) 1936
D) 1909
- 18. What was one of Bartók's main interests outside of music?
A) Politics
B) Mathematics
C) Insects
D) Painting
- 19. What is the name of Bartók's only opera?
A) Divertimento
B) Bluebeard's Castle
C) The Miraculous Mandarin
D) The Wooden Prince
- 20. Who did Bartók collaborate with to study folk song classification?
A) Charles Seeger
B) Zoltán Kodály
C) Ahmet Adnan Saygun
D) Joan Llongueras i Badia
- 21. In which country did Bartók collect folk music in 1913?
A) Algeria
B) Turkey
C) Spain
D) Italy
- 22. Which composer influenced Bartók's 'The Wooden Prince'?
A) Stravinsky
B) Schoenberg
C) Strauss
D) Debussy
- 23. What delayed the performance of 'The Miraculous Mandarin' until 1926?
A) The outbreak of World War I
B) The librettist's blacklist
C) The story's sexual content
D) The lack of a theater
- 24. In what city did Bartók perform his Rhapsody for piano in 1927?
A) Budapest
B) Adana
C) Vienna
D) Barcelona
- 25. In 1936, where did Bartók travel to study folk music with Ahmet Adnan Saygun?
A) Romania
B) Turkey
C) Hungary
D) Bulgaria
- 26. How many revivals did 'Bluebeard's Castle' receive before Bartók emigrated?
A) Three
B) None
C) Ten
D) One
- 27. What tool did Bartók find essential for collecting folk music?
A) Printing press
B) Metronome
C) Phonograph
D) Piano
- 28. What was Béla Bartók's profession besides being a composer and pianist?
A) Diplomat
B) Ethnomusicologist
C) Architect
D) Physicist
- 29. Which other composer is regarded alongside Bartók as one of Hungary's greatest?
A) Richard Strauss
B) Johannes Brahms
C) Franz Liszt
D) Claude Debussy
- 30. Bartók is considered one of the founders of which field?
A) Comparative musicology
B) Classical philosophy
C) Modern linguistics
D) Medieval history
- 31. In what year was Béla Bartók born?
A) 1881
B) 1871
C) 1891
D) 1901
- 32. Where was Bartók born?
A) Paris
B) Nagyszentmiklós
C) Bratislava
D) Budapest
- 33. What was the name of Bartók's mother?
A) Paula
B) Maria
C) Erzsébet
D) Lidi
- 34. At what age could Bartók play 40 pieces on the piano?
A) Ten
B) Six
C) Four
D) Eight
- 35. Who was Bartók's composition teacher at the Royal Academy of Music?
A) János Koessler
B) Franz Liszt
C) László Erkel
D) István Thomán
- 36. Which of these individuals was a student of Bartók?
A) István Thomán
B) László Erkel
C) János Koessler
D) Sir Georg Solti
- 37. What scale did Bartók and Kodály discover was the basis for old Hungarian folk melodies?
A) Whole-tone
B) Pentatonic
C) Chromatic
D) Diatonic
- 38. What title was given to Bartók's two volumes containing 80 folk tunes?
A) For Children
B) Folk Melodies
C) Peasant Songs
D) Hungarian Rhapsodies
- 39. Bartók was especially fond of the asymmetrical dance rhythms found in the music of which nation?
A) Hungary
B) Bulgaria
C) Slovakia
D) Romania
- 40. In what year did Béla Bartók emigrate to the United States?
A) 1942
B) 1933
C) 1945
D) 1940
- 41. What political group did Bartók strongly oppose?
A) The Nazi Party
B) The Hungarian Communist Party
C) The Allied Powers
D) The American Socialist Party
- 42. Where did Bartók and his wife settle after arriving in the United States?
A) Boston
B) Chicago
C) New York City
D) Florida
- 43. What health condition was Bartók eventually diagnosed with in 1944?
A) Polycythemia
B) Stiffening of the shoulder
C) Leukemia
D) Tuberculosis
- 44. Who commissioned Bartók to write a Sonata for Solo Violin in 1944?
A) Yehudi Menuhin
B) Joseph Szigeti
C) Fritz Reiner
D) Serge Koussevitzky
- 45. In what year did Bartók become a United States citizen?
A) 1942
B) 1940
C) 1988
D) 1945
- 46. Where was Bartók initially interred after his death?
A) Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
B) Columbia University
C) Farkasréti Cemetery
D) Ferncliff Cemetery
- 47. Who completed the two unfinished works Bartók left behind?
A) György Sándor
B) Péter Bartók
C) Nelson Dellamaggiore
D) Tibor Serly
- 48. Which institution provided Bartók with a research fellowship?
A) The United States Navy
B) Boston Symphony Orchestra
C) Columbia University
D) Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
- 49. When were Bartók's remains transferred to Budapest?
A) 1990
B) 1945
C) 1982
D) 1988
- 50. What is the characteristic style described as 'eerie dissonances providing a backdrop to sounds of nature'?
A) Folk rhapsody
B) Diatonic suite
C) Night music
D) Modernist symphony
- 51. In which movements of compositions did Bartók mostly use his 'night music' style?
A) Slow movements
B) Finale movements
C) Opening movements
D) Dance interludes
- 52. What movement of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta is cited as an example of night music?
A) Second movement (Allegro)
B) First movement (Andante)
C) Fourth movement (Finale)
D) Third movement (Adagio)
- 53. What did the diatonic system of harmony serve composers for prior to the 20th century?
A) 100 years
B) 50 years
C) 200 years
D) 500 years
- 54. Who provided Bartók with stormy and inspiring contact during the summer of 1915?
A) Béla Bartók
B) Klára Gombossy
C) Zoltán Kodály
D) Denijs Dille
- 55. Who researched the hidden episode between Bartók and Klára Gombossy between 1979 and 1989?
A) Béla Bartók
B) Klára Gombossy
C) Denijs Dille
D) Franz Liszt
- 56. Which composition did Bartók complete in 1917?
A) Dance Suite
B) The Miraculous Mandarin
C) Suite for piano opus 14
D) The Wooden Prince
- 57. In what year did Bartók compose The Miraculous Mandarin?
A) 1916
B) 1923
C) 1919
D) 1920
- 58. How did Bartók perceive the outcome of World War I?
A) As a personal tragedy
B) With complete indifference
C) As an inspiration for war music
D) As a political victory
- 59. Where was Béla Bartók born?
A) The Banat
B) Budapest
C) Transylvania
D) Bratislava
- 60. In what year did Bartók marry for the second time?
A) 1920
B) 1915
C) 1919
D) 1923
- 61. Which city was the home of Bartók's mother, which was later severed from Hungary?
A) Bratislava
B) The Banat
C) Transylvania
D) Budapest
- 62. What was the title of the work Bartók wrote in 1923?
A) Dance Suite
B) Eight Improvisations
C) The Wooden Prince
D) Suite for piano
- 63. In what year did Bartók seek a significant piece for piano and orchestra to tour with?
A) 1920
B) 1926
C) 1930
D) 1945
- 64. Which American composer inspired Bartók's use of tone clusters?
A) George Perle
B) Milton Babbitt
C) Henry Cowell
D) Richard Cohn
- 65. Which work did Bartók describe as his most personal credo?
A) Cantata Profana
B) Concerto for Orchestra
C) Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
D) Third Piano Concerto
- 66. Who analyzed Bartók's work based on opposing tonal systems, the acoustic scale, and the axis system?
A) Milton Babbitt
B) Richard Cohn
C) Elliott Antokoletz
D) Ernő Lendvai
- 67. In which work did Bartók want to show Schoenberg that one can use all twelve tones and still remain tonal?
A) Second Violin Concerto
B) Fourth Quartet
C) Third String Quartet
D) Second Quartet
- 68. Which composer criticized Bartók for using tonality and non-tonal methods unique to each piece?
A) Henry Cowell
B) Milton Babbitt
C) George Perle
D) Richard Cohn
- 69. What structural principle did Ernő Lendvai identify in Bartók's compositions?
A) Strict imitation
B) Strict twelve-tone rows
C) Sonata-rondo form
D) Golden section
- 70. How many string quartets did Bartók compose?
A) Eight
B) Six
C) Four
D) Ten
- 71. What is the primary theme of no. 6 of the Eight Improvisations composed of?
A) Black keys
B) Diatonic triads
C) White keys
D) Tone clusters
- 72. In what year did Bartók stop assigning opus numbers?
A) 1941
B) 1994
C) 1921
D) 1929
- 73. What does the DD cataloguing system cover?
A) Operas
B) Field recordings
C) Orchestral works
D) Juvenilia
- 74. Who created the BB number catalogue?
A) Denijs Dille
B) László Somfai
C) András Szőllősy
D) Zoltán Kodály
- 75. In what year did Bartók's works enter the public domain in the EU?
A) 2016
B) 2014
C) 2008
D) 2003
- 76. What machine did Bartók use to record folk melodies?
A) Tape recorder
B) Gramophone
C) Phonomotor
D) Digital recorder
- 77. Which record label has released many of Bartók's field recordings and piano performances?
A) Decca Classics
B) Pearl
C) Tantara Records
D) Hungaroton
- 78. How many discs are in the Decca Classics 'Complete Works' set?
A) 32
B) 6
C) 1
D) 2
- 79. What is the primary reason Bartók stopped using opus numbers?
A) His publisher forbade it
B) He lost his notes
C) He switched to a thematic system
D) Difficulty distinguishing original works from arrangements
- 80. What company released a compilation of field recordings for two violas in 2014?
A) Hungaroton
B) Pearl
C) Tantara Records
D) Decca Classics
- 81. Are Bartók's own performances included in the Decca Classics 'The Complete Works' set?
A) Only the folk recordings
B) Only the piano concertos
C) Yes, all of them
D) No
- 82. In which city is the statue of Bartók located near the Spanjeplein-Place d'Espagne?
A) Budapest
B) London
C) Brussels
D) Paris
- 83. When was the English Heritage blue plaque for Bartók unveiled at 7 Sydney Place?
A) 2005
B) 1997
C) 1980
D) 1999
- 84. In which city is the bust of Bartók located next to a bust of Ahmet Adnan Saygun?
A) Timișoara
B) Toronto
C) Vienna
D) Ankara
- 85. In what year was Bartók inducted into the American Classical Musical Hall of Fame?
A) 1999
B) 1997
C) 2005
D) 1980
- 86. Who sculpted the bronze statue of Bartók at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto?
A) Imre Varga
B) András Beck
C) Ahmet Adnan Saygun
D) Jean-Yves Lechevallier
- 87. What is the distance between Sânnicolau Mare and Timișoara?
A) 29 kilometres
B) 81 kilometres
C) 57 kilometres
D) 58 kilometres
- 88. Which sculpture is found in the Square Béla-Bartók in Paris alongside the statue of Bartók?
A) The Walk of Fame Star
B) Cristaux
C) Sydney Place Plaque
D) Nákó Castle
- 89. Which artist designed the fountain/sculpture Cristaux in Paris?
A) András Beck
B) Jean-Yves Lechevallier
C) Béla Bartók
D) Imre Varga
- 90. In which city is the expressionist sculpture by András Beck located?
A) Paris
B) New York City
C) London
D) Toronto
- 91. Where is Bartók's star on the Walk of Fame located?
A) Karlsplatz-Passage, Vienna
B) W. 57th Street, New York City
C) The Royal Conservatory, Toronto
D) Sydney Place, London
- 92. At which address in New York City did Bartók spend the last year of his life?
A) Csalán út 29
B) 309 W. 57th Street
C) Karlsplatz-Passage
D) 7 Sydney Place
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