11K views · 561 reactions |  A section from one of Béla Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances performed by ROH violinist Jan Schmolck and pianist Frances Angell The important Hungarian composer was born on this day in 1881 | Royal Ballet And Opera | Facebook

New Video: Béla Bartók "Romanian Folk Dances"! This is the first piece by Bartók that I ever played when I was growing up, when I was around seven years old, and is perhaps his most popular piece. Hearing it opened the door to so much other great music. Not long afterward, I was listening to and starting to learn the concertos and eventually the solo sonata and his sonatas for violin and piano and later his string quartets, and he became one of my favorite composers. Bèla Bartók spent many years