Josefowicz, Wiegers and the MKO

Homeland and Emigration. After fascism spread across large parts of Europe and the Second World War broke out, Béla Bartók left his Hungarian homeland, which had a great influence on his style, for North America for good in 1940. With his Violin Concerto No. 2, composed in 1937/38, he wrote his last instrumental concerto produced in Europe.