Bartók is the surname of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, widely recognized for his contributions to 20th‑century classical music and ethnomusicology. In pronunciation, the stress falls on the first syllable, with a distinctive Hungarian vowel quality that can be approximated in English as BAR-tok, but with a rounded, slightly backened middle vowel and a crisp final consonant. The name is treated as a proper noun used in scholarly and musical contexts.
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