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===Early years (1890–1902)=== [[File:Bartók_Béla_1903.jpg|thumb|Bartók in 1903]] The works of Bartók's youth were written in a classical and early romantic style touched with influences of popular and [[Romani people|romani]] music.{{sfn|Citron|1963}}{{Page needed|date=September 2018}} Between 1890 and 1894 (9 to 13 years of age) he wrote 31 piano pieces.{{sfn|Gillies|2001}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=László |first=Somfai |date=1992 |title=Problems of the Chronological Organization of the Béla Bartók Thematic Index in Preparation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/902287 |journal=Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae |volume=T. 34 |issue=Fasc. 3/4 |pages=345–366 |doi=10.2307/902287 |jstor=902287 |via=JSTORE}}</ref> Although most of these were simple dance pieces, in these early works Bartók began to tackle some more advanced forms, as in his ten-part programmatic ''A Duna folyása'' ("The Course of the Danube", 1890–1894), which he played in his first public recital in 1892.{{sfn|Cooper|2015|p=11}} In Catholic grammar school Bartók took to studying the scores of composers "from [[Bach]] to [[Wagner]]",{{sfn|Moreux|1974|p=18}} his compositions then advancing in style and taking on similarities to [[Schumann]] and [[Brahms]].{{sfn|Cooper|2015|p=14}} Following his matriculation into the Budapest Academy in 1890 he composed very little, though he began to work on exercises in orchestration and familiarized himself thoroughly with the operas of Wagner.{{sfn|Stevens|1993|p=12}} In 1902 his creative energies were revitalized by the discovery of the music of Richard Strauss, whose tone poem ''Also sprach Zarathustra'', according to Bartók, "stimulated the greatest enthusiasm in me; at last I saw the way that lay before me". Bartók also owned the score to [[Ein Heldenleben|''A Hero's Life'']], which he transcribed for the piano and committed to memory.{{sfn|Stevens|1993|pp=15–16}}
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