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