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The Bartók Memorial House announced on Friday that Béla Bartók’s youngest son, Péter Bartók, had died at the age of 96.
At the age of 97, on December 7, Péter Bartók, Béla Bartók’s youngest son, died. Born in Budapest on July 31, 1924, Péter Bartók, as owner of Bartók Records, contributed to the care of his father’s work by reviewing various works by Bartók and publishing similar ones. Péter Bartók was born to Béla Bartók’s second wife, Edith Pásztory, an engineer. His half brother Béla Bartók Jr. was born from his father’s first marriage.
Béla Bartók and his wife traveled to the United States for a long time in October 1940, and the children of Péter, a high school student who remained in the Hungarian capital, were placed under the tutelage of doctor Tibor Hajnal. However, at dawn, the Second Jewish Law prevented him from carrying out his task. Under Hungarian law, Péter Bartók was recruited from January 1, 1942, for which he left Hungary on December 22, 1941 with an Italian and American visa obtained by his father, and arrived in America in April with his parents. In his new homeland, he enlisted in the United States Navy, with which he was required to serve in the Panama Canal. The soldiers of the enemy country were not sent to the front to fight.
Péter Bartók lived in Florida and, as caretaker of the estate, he also faced conflicts with the purity of his father’s music. This is made possible by the fact that United States law protects copyright for 75 years after the author’s death. Her memory of her father is captured in a 2017 documentary. My dad provides irreplaceable information about the life of the Bartók family in their last apartment in Budapest, his father’s work as a composer and researcher of folk music, Micro driftseries about the daily life of the family.
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