Bela Bartok Quiz Questions and Answers
Q1. In what year was Bela Bartok born?
A. 1879
B. 1881
C. 1883
D. 1885
Answer: B. 1881
Q2. Where was Bela Bartok born?
A. Budapest, Hungary
B. Vienna, Austria
C. Nagyszentmiklos, Kingdom of Hungary
D. Bratislava, Slovakia
Answer: C. Nagyszentmiklos, Kingdom of Hungary
Q3. What was Bela Bartok’s full name?
A. Bela Viktor Janos Bartok
B. Bela Istvan Laszlo Bartok
C. Bela Ferenc Miklos Bartok
D. Bela Jozsef Tamas Bartok
Answer: A. Bela Viktor Janos Bartok
Q4. What was the profession of Bela Bartok’s father?
A. Composer
B. Pianist
C. Director of an agricultural school
D. Ethnomusicologist
Answer: C. Director of an agricultural school
Q5. At what age did Bela Bartok give his first public recital?
A. 9
B. 11
C. 13
D. 15
Answer: B. 11
Q6. What was the title of Bela Bartok’s first known composition?
A. Kossuth
B. Bluebeard’s Castle
C. The Course of the Danube
D. Mikrokosmos
Answer: C. The Course of the Danube
Q7. Under whom did Bela Bartok study piano at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest?
A. Istvan Thoman
B. Janos Koessler
C. Zoltan Kodaly
D. Bala Balazs
Answer: A. Istvan Thoman
Q8. In what year did Bela Bartok begin teaching piano at the Liszt Academy of Music?
A. 1905
B. 1907
C. 1909
D. 1911
Answer: B. 1907
Q9. Which famous conductor was one of Bela Bartok’s students at the Liszt Academy?
A. Fritz Reiner
B. Leonard Bernstein
C. Herbert von Karajan
D. Simon Rattle
Answer: A. Fritz Reiner
Q10. To which country did Bela Bartok emigrate in 1940?
A. France
B. United Kingdom
C. United States
D. Switzerland
Answer: C. United States
Q11. What was the cause of Bela Bartok’s death?
A. Heart disease
B. Complications of leukemia
C. Tuberculosis
D. Pneumonia
Answer: B. Complications of leukemia
Q12. In what year was Bela Bartok’s first major orchestral work, Kossuth, composed?
A. 1901
B. 1902
C. 1903
D. 1907
Answer: C. 1903
Q13. What is the key of Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 1?
A. C minor
B. A minor
C. E major
D. G major
Answer: B. A minor
Q14. In what year was Bela Bartok’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle composed?
A. 1909
B. 1910
C. 1911
D. 1915
Answer: C. 1911
Q15. Which ballet by Bela Bartok was influenced by Claude Debussy?
A. The Miraculous Mandarin
B. The Wooden Prince
C. Cantata Profana
D. Dance Suite
Answer: B. The Wooden Prince
Q16. For what reason was the premiere of The Miraculous Mandarin delayed until 1926?
A. Political censorship
B. Financial issues
C. Due to its sexual content
D. Orchestral revisions
Answer: C. Due to its sexual content
Q17. In what year was Bela Bartok’s String Quartet No. 6 composed?
A. 1934
B. 1936
C. 1938
D. 1939
Answer: D. 1939
Q18. Which work by Bela Bartok was composed in 1936 for strings, percussion, and celesta?
A. Divertimento
B. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
C. Cantata Profana
D. Sonata for Solo Violin
Answer: B. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Q19. Which piano concerto by Bela Bartok incorporated tone clusters inspired by Henry Cowell?
A. No. 1
B. No. 2
C. No. 3
D. None of the above
Answer: A. No. 1
Q20. For whom was Bela Bartok’s Mikrokosmos primarily composed?
A. His wife Ditta
B. His son Peter
C. Concert pianists
D. Ethnomusicology students
Answer: B. His son Peter
Q21. Who completed the orchestration of Bela Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 after his death?
A. Zoltan Kodaly
B. Yehudi Menuhin
C. Tibor Serly
D. Gyorgy Sandor
Answer: C. Tibor Serly
Q22. Which work was commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin and composed by Bela Bartok in 1944?
A. Concerto for Orchestra
B. Sonata for Solo Violin
C. Viola Concerto
D. Divertimento
Answer: B. Sonata for Solo Violin
Q23. In what year was Bela Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra premiered?
A. 1944
B. 1945
C. 1946
D. 1947
Answer: A. 1944
Q24. Who sparked Bela Bartok’s interest in folk music by singing Transylvanian songs in 1904?
A. Zoltan Kodaly
B. His mother Paula
C. Nanny Lidi Dosa
D. Ditta Pásztory
Answer: C. Nanny Lidi Dosa
Q25. With whom did Bela Bartok co-found the field of comparative musicology in 1908?
A. Igor Stravinsky
B. Zoltan Kodaly
C. Arnold Schoenberg
D. Richard Strauss
Answer: B. Zoltan Kodaly