Who was born first, Béla Bartók or Dmitri Shostakovich?
Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók ( ; ] ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) 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.
Nikolay Kashkin Nikolay Dmitriyevich Kashkin (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Кашкин ; 27 November [O.S. 9 December] 1839 15 March 1920) was a Russian music critic as well as a professor of piano and music theory at the Moscow Conservatory for 33 years (1866-96 and 1905-08).