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 Bu§i|ia. Bartók writes that he is satisfied with the results so far. In Szurdok he also posts a letter to his mother. During this collecting trip he gathers about 200 songs in 11 communities: in Jód, Alsóvisó, Kisbocskó, Dragomérfalva, Izakonyha, Petrova, Saj ómező, Glód, Mikolapatak, Nánfalva, and Váncsfalva. 27 March - He travels home from Máramaros to Rákoskeresztúr. 31 March - From there he writes about getting ever nearer to the end of the volume of the Bihar collection to D. Kiriac in Bucharest, and that he has been to the Bánság three times (in March and December of 1912, in February of 1913) and on the last occasion to Máramaros. 8 April - He writes T. Brediceanu in Nagyszeben, suggesting in a letter that they publish their Máramaros collections in a joint volume, also containing about 60 melodies they both noted down. He asks to be the editor. (Finally he published only his own collection.) He plans a collecting tour for the summer in North Africa. Much administrative work is required for its arrangements. On 10 April he is to go to Vienna, probably in connection with his passport, while he asks composer Géza Vilmos Zágon to intercede on his behalf in Paris for a letter of recommendation to Algeria. 17 April (and shortly afterwards once again) he writes Head of the Music Department of the Hungarian National Museum, Kálmán Isoz about the appeal concerning his passport. 20 April - He appears at the matinee of Nyugat. Béla Balázs s mystery was performed, The Bluebeards Castle, without music, getting very bad reviews. After this his activity as a pianist has been almost nonexistent for four and a half years; until November 1917 he had only one public appearance in October 1915. 24 April - From Rákoskeresztúr he writes Jon Bianu in Bucharest that the proofs of the Bihar collection are ready, and he would now set out to prepare the manuscript of the Bánság collection for print. He suggests 144
