Béla Viktor János Bartók (1881-1945) is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century. After showing great musical talent at a young age, his first compositions were in a traditional European mold influenced by Debussy and Richard Strauss before he went on an ethnomusicological field trip in 1908 to collect and research Magyar folk songs. After that, the influence of these began to show in such thrilling modernistic works as his Concerto Grosso, his three piano concertos, his six string quartets, his ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, and his opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. His anti-fascist political views forced him to flee Hungary at the outbreak of World War II, and he died in New York, though his remains were reinterred in Hungary after the fall of Communism.