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 few Mozart sonatas for publication, on some pieces for children, and he hopes to get 1,030 crowns for them. - He is also considering the possibility of changing jobs. He is giving thought to the advertisement of the city of Pécs (3,600 K salary, 800 K rent and 400 K bonus per year), but dismisses it at once, because they would require a certificate for teaching the piano which he doesn’t have. 8 September - His wife and son come home from the sanatorium. 9 September - Teaching starts at the Music Academy. His wife is in a continuous state of poor health; this fact combined with the slow development of his musical acknowledgement, and the academic teaching being so mechanical, exasperate Bartok more and more, which worries his mother a lot. On 15 September she writes her son from Pozsony: . .1 think it’s not right that you want to withdraw completely, and suspend frequenting concerts or people”. The next day she writes her daughter-in-law: “I hope Béla will also rejoice seeing you getting better”; and on 22 September she encourages her to take care of her own nourishment, because “ Béla usually doesn’t notice if people eat less or get off colour. Does Béla know the feeling of fatherhood by now?” 27 September - Bartok gives his mother an account of the long lasting illness, the bad and expensive medical treatment and of how difficult it is for him to work. He also writes about László Kun wanting to play several Bartok pieces with his orchestra on 4 December, he should prepare their orchestration. (Eventually no Bartok pieces were played at the mentioned concert.) At the beginning of October he is in Pozsony. 7 October - From there he writes postcards to his wife in Budapest, one in Romanian and one in French. 8 October - He leaves Pozsony returning to Budapest. Finally he can make time for folk song collecting. 14 October - He travels from Budapest to Kolozsvár, on the 15th to 124
