CLASSICAL MUSIC AND FOLK MUSIC

The relationship between folk music and classical music is complex. Several composers have been noted for their use of expressly folk melodies or themes, as well as research into enthno-musicology:

★ Béla Bartók

★ Johannes Brahms

★ Frédéric Chopin

★ Aaron Copland

★ Henry Cowell

★ Antonín Dvořák

★ Franz Joseph Haydn

★ Edvard Grieg

★ Zoltán Kodály

★ Franz Liszt

★ Seán Ó Riada

★ Jean Sibelius

★ Christian Sinding

★ Igor Stravinsky

★ Bedřich Smetana

★ Ralph Vaughan Williams

★ George Enescu