His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct. . . these are all echoes. … - Bela Bartok

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Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct. . . these are all echoes. . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

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