Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Settling In Budapest. Systematic Collection of Folk Songs (1907–1913)
1910 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE giving them kindly leads... I have had enough of these already, I don’t want any more” - he later writes Etelka Freund. 1910 3 January - From Paris he notifies Mrs János Busitia in Belényes about his plans for visiting the Vaskoh area at the end of the month. (He will eventually get there only in February.) 5 January - On his way home from Munich, he writes Etelka Freund about his negative experiences of the Paris musicians who “made all kinds of, let’s say, lukewarm promises”. 8 January - In Budapest they buy 2 leather armchairs from upholsterer Arnold Robert for 240 crowns. 9 January - He writes Bu§i|ia again about the planned Vaskoh trip. 12 January - He gives an account of several important and joyful events to his mother in Szilad Puszta. One of these being of Rudolf Ganz, a Swiss pianist who played in Berlin on the 8th Bear Dance and Evening in Transylvania, eliciting huge acclaim from the audience. - He accepted yet another pupil for a 15 K (crowns) hourly fee, but the most important news are that he will have an evening of sonatas with Kerpely on 25 February (this will then be postponed for the 28th), and mainly that he and Kodály together organise 2 subscription concerts, an evening of Kodály ’s pieces and one of Bartok’s, with the participation of the Waldbauer-Kerpely String Quartet consisting of only young people. - At the same time he congratulates his mother on her birth- and name-day. 16 January - The widowed Mrs Béla Bartok replies: “It is good that finally even Kodály steps to the foreground, otherwise very few would know what his talent is like”. 28 January - He writes his final Vaskoh program to János Busitia. 118
