Bela Bartok, Slovakian Children's Songs (Selections) - Emre Sabuncuoğlu, classical guitar

From http://www.EmreSabuncuoglu.com - Classical guitarist Emre Sabuncuoğlu plays his arrangement of Bartok's Slovakian Children's Songs. Bartok, a Hungarian composer whose passion was studying the music of various cultures, based this collection of children's songs upon Slovakian folk tunes. Sabuncuoğlu, who shares Bartok's passion for ethnomusicology, performs extensively throughout the greater Los Angeles area. He also teaches the classical guitar at his studio, Los Angeles Guitar Academy ( http://www.laguitar.com ), and through its online division, LAGA Online at http://www.onlineguitaracademy.net

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.

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