Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Settling In Budapest. Systematic Collection of Folk Songs (1907–1913)
1913 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE (Torontál county). 28 December - He collects in Alibunár, on the 29th in Petre (Torontál county). Denta of Temes county and Tolvád, Bánlak, and Üjozora of Torontál county are also registered as origin of the folk songs collected at this time. He collects about 200 songs in all. 31 December - Running out of cylinders, he returns to Budapest. 1913 1 January - Upon arriving in Budapest he stays with the Kodálys. - He writes his wife staying in Szilad Puszta that she would not be late returning home only on the 10th, because until then he intends to go to Hont county, where (according to Sámuel Bobáls message) he was expected and there would be enough singers. He describes at length the contents of the 222-line long ballad from Petre (also mentioned to Bu§i|ia at this time), and also speaks of having bought 3 pre-oboe-like instruments called caraba. He intended to go to Hont county again after 15 February; during this period he noted down songs from the communities of Egyházmarót, Bakabánya, and Méznevelő. 1 February - In Kecskemét the Kecskemét Choral Society organised a “Kuruc Evening” where Bartok played his own pieces: 2 Burlesques, 10 numbers from the 14 Bagatells, Rumanian Dance No. 1, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, several pieces of For Children for the first time in a row, finally Allegro barbaro which was a world premiere. He continues his southern collecting tour broken in December. 14 February - He travels to Arad, where, due to a delay of 1 hour, he misses his train connection. 15 February - Thus he writes from here to his wife in Rákoskeresztúr: 142
