TY - JOUR PY - 1981// TI - The death of Béla Bartók in New York. On the centenary of his birth, May 25th 1981 (author's transl) JO - MMW: Munchener Medizinische Wochenschrift A1 - Kerner, D. SP - 525 EP - 529 VL - 123 IS - 13 N2 - Soon after the Hungarian composer B. Bartók had emigrated to America in 1940, he developed a relapsing myelocytic leukemia while in New York, which was accompanied by joint complaints and pyrexia. Bartók, now reduced to a skeleton, fell a victim of pneumonia in 1945. In spite of blood transfusions and oxygen respiration he succumbed to his condition on 26th September 1945 at the age of 64.

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