Walter Meyer, adding his two cents:

>>>If all (or almost all) Hungarian words are stressed on the first syllable,
>>>then what does the thing that looks like an acute accent do to the
>>>pronunciation of Barto'k's name?
>>
>>It alters the quality of the vowel, not the accent on the vowel.  O' o'
>>(accent aigu, in French, but we can't show it in ASCII here) simply
>>denotes a long o, as in the English word 'show.'
>
>You mean his name is not pronounced "bar talk"?

Apparently, it's "bar toke."

A seedier dive, apparently.

Steve Schwartz