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 weekly ‘Ugocsa County’ of Nagyszöllős. He has an accident in Algiers, his leg is injured, so they need to stay there for about 10 days and can leave for Europe again only afterwards - going first to Grenoble (where they catch the French national holiday of 14 July), then to Chamonix. 18 July - They arrive in Zermatt, also followed by Bartoks sister-in-law, Herma Ziegler. 20 July - The sisters take an excursion on the route Martigny (Valais) - Vernayez. 22 July - They go to the Gornergrat where - for the first time since his injury - Bartok is also accompanying them. They had left the African luggage in Algiers, and the Richard Heckmann firm posted it at this time to Trieste, from where the S. and W. Hoffmann firm forwarded it to Rákos on the 24th. Around 26 July - They leave Zermatt, then spend 2 days in Milan and Venice respectively. 1 August - They arrive home. One suitcase of their African luggage arrived on 31 July, which they receive after clearance on 4 August in Rákoskeresztúr. 5 August - Letter to the S. and W. Hoffmann firm in Trieste concerning the other chests, to which the answer is: they were registered to the steamboat “Tisza”, with no further information at disposal. His wife and little son travel to Szilad. 10 August - Bartok does a bit of gardening. 11 August - He writes in a detailed account to his wife: “Here I note down a daily 7-8 cylinders, edit the hash of the Tót folk songs, read a bit of Romanian. Nothing more”. He is also preparing to go to Szilad, where he intends to sleep and eat for 12 hours, work for 6-7 hours “and walk and jump around for the rest”. 16 August - He leaves for Szilad. 22 August - From here he replies to Géza Vilmos Zágons previous offer, 146
