All these works show a great originality of form and content, a very interesting blend of highly sophisticated mastery in the Western-European style of music,[citation needed] including classical, late-romantic, impressionistic and modernist tradition and at the other hand profound knowledge and respect for the folk music in Hungary and the Hungarian-inhabited areas of Slovakia and Romania. Partly because of the Great War and subsequent major...
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All these works show a great originality of form and content, a very interesting blend of highly sophisticated mastery in the Western-European style of music,[citation needed] including classical, late-romantic, impressionistic and modernist tradition and at the other hand profound knowledge and respect for the folk music in Hungary and the Hungarian-inhabited areas of Slovakia and Romania. Partly because of the Great War and subsequent major...