# Béla Bartók — Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Béla Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (1936) is No. 6 in our Modernism ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it.

- **Released:** 1936
- **On one list:** Modernism
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Béla Bartók](https://waxonia.com/artist/bela-bartok/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/bela-bartok--music-for-strings-percussion-and-celesta/

## What we say

### No. 6 in [Modernism](https://waxonia.com/genre/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.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/B%C3%A9la%20Bart%C3%B3k%20Music%20for%20Strings%2C%20Percussion%20and%20Celesta) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-9LWHEf0VFo)

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