Bartok with beard:)

Bela Bartok - Hungarian Sketches - Bear Dance - The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra

Hungarian Sketches (Sz.97) - 2. Bear Dance - (The Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra-recorded in 1958) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea0pFr4eB94

Rare photo of Bartok's family

A rare photo of Bartok's son Peter and his wife Ditta Pasztory

1928 Bartók's Piano Recital at Baja (Hungary)

9th April, 1928. Bartók's Piano Recital at Baja (Hungary - see the pic.) he played  Mozart Fantasy in C minor K475, Beethoven Piano Sonata op. 10. , Chopin Nocturne in C# minor and he played his own works: Bear Dance, Burlesque 2nd, An Evening in Transylvania, Romanian Dance No. 1., 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs.

The Cover of the The Wooden Prince

31th March 1917 - Bartók wrote to his wife: "Imagine! A keyboard xylophone will be constructed so that these complicated modern xylophone parts can be played easier." (The first edition of Wooden Prince - see under the photo)

Bartók's first piano lesson

Bartók started to begin piano lessons when he was 5 years old, at his birthday (25th March, 1886). "My first teacher was my mother." - as he remembered later.

Bartók recorded folk songs (1907)

Bartók Béla (left) stands at a window recording folk songs from Hungarian peasants. (Darazs, Hungary, 1907)