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day, then out of the blue he proposed to her, giving her three days to make her decision. Up till then, their relationship had been strictly teacher and pupil. She accepted, they obtained a special licence and were married within a week, on 28 August 1923. In 1924 she gave birth to Peter Bartók, her only child but her husband's second son (after Bela Bartók III in 1910). In 1926, Béla Bartók dedicated his suite
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Ziegler (1893-1967) in June 1923. He had a distinct attraction to girls and women considerably younger than himself. Márta was aged only 16 when he married her in 1909, when he was 28. In Ditta's case, she was 19 and he 42. He walked her home after a lesson one
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as a surprise present for Ditta, who would be celebrating her 42nd birthday at the end of
October 1945. But his recovery was illusory, and he died in New York on 26 September 1945. He managed to finish the scoring of the Piano Concerto No. 3 except for the final 17 bars, but he left coded
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was able to use to complete the work. The Viola
Concerto was merely sketched out, and was in a far less final state, but it too was ultimately pieced together and orchestrated by Serly. Alternative completions and revisions of the work have since appeared by Bartok's son Peter and
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Budapest in 1982, aged 79. Her husband's centenary had been celebrated the previous year. She is buried next to him in Budapest, after he was moved from the USA to Hungary.
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Goodman and Henry Deneke, Béla and Ditta Pásztory-Bartók jointly premiered his
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act as her translator. Bartók's music was not being played by orchestras or chamber ensembles, and he and Ditta were in little demand as pianists. During that time, Bartók contracted
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