Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
War Years (1914–1919)
WAR YEARS (1914-1919) 1914 WAR YEARS 1914-1919 1914 4 January - Not long at home he is already busy with the Slovakian collecting. 23 January - He travels from Budapest to Teszér and Egyházmarót via Ipolyság; he is collecting there and in Lissó, also in Berencsfalu and Bakabánya or from singers coming from these places. 27 January - He returns home to Rákoskeresztúr via Ipolyság. He spends February in Rákoskeresztúr {on the 10th he goes to Budapest), he is working on the edition and publication of his Romanian folk song collection. 13 February - He writes János Bu§i|ia in Belényes that he is in preparation for another collecting in Bihar starting on the 21st, but in the meantime he wants to present to the Hungarian Ethnographic Society some of the results of his collecting in Hunyad county. For this purpose he intends to bring 2 musicians (bagpipe player and flutist) and 2 female singers to Budapest from Cserbel, one of the most secluded communities, so that they show their folk songs in person. He organises the program together with the Secretary-General of the Ethnographic Society; he states his proposal already on the 13th, complete with an estimation of the expenses, on the 14th he writes about the details of the trip, and on the 20th he fixes the date of the presentation. 149
