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... Another key theme of the late 19th and early 20th Century was modernism, an intellectual, political and cultural philosophy, which sought advancement through the systematic rejection of previously, accepted conventions. That Bartók’s nationalism was already established in the early 20th Century can be established in a letter to his mother in 1903, wherein he expresses his frustration at the ubiquity of the German language amongst Budapest’s elite, and exhorts his mother and sister to speak exclusively in Hungarian. ... He also noted the fact that most art music of the time was Germanic in origin, and he wondered where the true Hungarian musical tradition resided. He considered much of the intellectual inhabitants of Budapest as non-Hungarian (racially at least), and so he felt that they could never be capable of producing genuine Hungarian music. It was entirely natural then, that he would look towards folk music, something definitely Hungarian, for an answer. Initially, Bartók derived his impression of Hungarian folk music from that performed by professional Gypsy musicians in restaurants and cafés, music previously employed by Franz Liszt (who saw the Gypsies as carriers of the traditions of Hungarian music, despite not being Hungarian himself). In 1903, Bartók wrote Kossuth, in which two nationalist threads are evident. ... While the intention of this piece was undoubtedly patriotic, Bartók would later conclude that the apparently Hungarian musical influences were not in fact authentically Hungarian. In 1904, while staying in Romania, Bartók happened to hear Lidi Dósa (a nursemaid from Transylvania) singing a székely song, which evoked childhood memories of hearing folk music in various Hungarian provinces. ... He was both surprised and captivated by the stark differences between this and the Gypsy music people of his class were accustomed to, and used to thinking of as genuine Hungarian folk music, being based on a different scale entirely.