In his Budapest home, Bela Bartok had a studio with two doors- one heavely padded to keep out all sounds. There he composed by the hour, sitting on a window-seat where the sun could beat down on him.
The folk songs he loved and had discovered in a two-year trip throughout the countryside formed the basis of much of his composition. Wherever he went in later years, he studied the folk music particularly. He believed that there was a relation between the folk music of Hungary and that of Turkey. The Turks had occupied Hungary during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and had a strong effect on its culture. So one of his trips was to Anatolia. He and a friend jounced in primitive horse-drawn carts over the rocky roads to remote districts where nomadic tribes lived. Bartok carefully carried the old-fashioned Edison phonograph with its wax cylinders on his lap all the way
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