Artist
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók appears once in our Modernism list, placing as high as No. 6. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Modernism
- Year
- 1936
- Highest placing
- No. 6 in Modernism
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
1936
Ranked No. 6 in Modernism
A fugue that expands outwards in semitones from a single note, and a night-music slow movement of extraordinary strangeness. Folk research and mathematics, in the same piece.