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The Miraculous Mandarin is a one acted ballet composed by Béla Bartók. Béla Bartók is a Hungarian composer, who was born on March 25, 1881 and is now one of the most important composers of the 20th century. He grew up with his parents and sister, Erzsébet in a small town called Nagyszentmiklós, Austria Hungary. Then moved to Nagyszölös when his father, Béla Bartók died. When Béla was 28 he lived with his first wife Marta Zeigler and his son Béla jr. After 15 years of marriage he divorced and married a Ditta Pásztory, a piano student, who was 19 at the time and he was 42. He then had another son named Péter. Béla once was an amazing composer, pianist and folk song collector, who died on September 26, 1945. He learned the piano with his mother, Paula Voit and afterwards went to study with István Thomán. He also composed under János Koessier at The Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. His parents knew he had a special eye for composing because at age four he learned how to play 40 different songs on the piano with no professional music lessons and at nine years old he would make up small, little dance pieces for his whole family to watch. Before Béla was a famous composer, in 1907 he took his first few steps in his career as a piano teacher in The Royal Academy for more then 25 years. In 1917 he working as a composer. He composed one of his first major orchestral work in 1903. He named this piece Kossuth after Lajos Kossuth, a beloved childhood, Hungarian Hero. But after The Fine Arts Commission Competition, Béla took a little break from composing. He wrote very little for about two to three years. Instead of composing he went on an expedition to collected folk music. But the outbreak of World War 1 stop him from his search for Hungarian music, so he was forced to return to composing. He made a comeback with The Wooden Prince and the String Quartet No. 2 which were inspired by Debussy. After another year he came out with a new ballet called The Miraculous Mandarin. It’s a story about prostitution, robbery and murder. It was premiered in 1926 in Cologne, Germany, the audience were in shook of the performance for it was inappropriate and disrespectful. The future showings of the show were banned for the

Upon thinking of the “Chinese Language” most individuals who are not already familiar with the language or Chinese culture will be thinking about the world’s most commonly spoken language which is Mandarin. “Mandarin is the languages spoken and written by the han Chinese who constitute more than 90% of the country’s populations” (Language and Dialects). So, it is reasonable that many people have a more limited knowledge on this particular subject. However, the history of the languages of China is one of great significance extending far beyond just Mandarin. There is a great history that accompanies the languages in China. When discussing the languages in China one has to keep in mind that it is not just the spoken languages at play here. While the spoken languages are very important, in a way the written language is much more essential. This written language can be broken up into two parts, the characters (汉子＝hanzi) and then pinyin; which is how the characters are pronounced.

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