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Thread #123098   Message #2706538
Posted By: GUEST,Tunesmith
23-Aug-09 - 08:24 AM
Thread Name: Bartok: foreign influences in folk music
Subject: RE: Bartok: foreign influences in folk music
Inerestngly, Bartok was very annoyed at Franz Liszt when he, i.e. Liszt, seemed to claim that gypsy music was the true music of Hungary. And, it's true, to this day, that you are more likely to be entertain by a gypsy fiddler in a Budapest resaurant than something that Bartok would recognise as true Hungarian folk music.