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 would go to Graz with his wife, and they eventually went there for 6 weeks indeed; so this piece of news shows only his usual pessimism.) Around this time he gets in contact with the publishing house Matica Slovenská of Turócszentmárton, to which he offers his Slovakian folk song collection of approx. 400 pieces. 24 June - From Graz he writes his mother in Pozsony that they arrived safely, everything is fine and not too expensive considering. They stay at 3 Goethe Strasse. 27 June - He writes 2 postcards to his mother who is already in St. Ruprecht. 4 July - He wants to visit his mother, but the weather is so bad that he only writes a postcard; on the 5th he is complaining that they are about to be moved to a noisier room, so they better leave. (In the end they didn’t.) 7 July - Bartok walks to St. Ruprecht. 8 July - From there he writes a postcard to his sister in Szilad, with their mother s postscript. 17 July - The first rainless day in Graz (the 40 days of the Medard period ending then). 22 July - Bartok takes an excursion to Radegund, from where he writes a postcard to his mother and to his sister, both with the same text of having lunch at the same place where they had been together in 1900. 29 July - In Mixnitz (Styria) Mr and Mrs Bartok climb the peak Lantsch of 1,722 meters, then the 1,363-metre height of Schüsselbrunn. They also sleep there. 30 July - They write a postcard to Mrs Emil Tóth in Szilad, then return to Graz via Mixnitz. Jn the course of July Jenő Hubay conducts Suite No. 1 in Ostende. 1 August - They walk from Mixnitz to St. Ruprecht. 2 August - The couple of pieces of Sekler furniture he ordered in Marosvásárhely from the joiner György Bükkösi’s workshop, are ready, valuing 112 K (crowns). 3 August - He takes an excursion to the Klamm with his wife and mother. 122
