Bartók’s collection and research of folk music pioneered ethnomusicology, the study of music in its cultural and social context. Bartók’s compositional style combined folk music, classicism, and modernism. Because of Bartók’s opposition to Nazi Germany, he was forced to emigrate to the United States in 1940. More @Wikipedia
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