Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
GREAT CONCERT TOURS ON TWO CONTINENTS (1 922-1 931 ) 1922 GREAT CONCERT TOURS ON TWO CONTINENTS 1922-1931 1922 The year 1922 starts the decade when most of Bartoks activities consist of giving concerts and scientific lectures, and appearances in the programs of the newly launched radio transmissions. 271 public appearances in 17 countries of 2 continents in 10 years mean an average of one performance every 13 days. Preparations for these, organising and executing the trips take up possibly even more of his time. At the beginning of the year Kolozsvár conductor and cellist Károly Rezik organises a Transylvanian concert tour for him. 17 January - Bartok writes his financial claims and the draft of his programme to Rezik in Kolozsvár. 18 January - A composers and piano evening at the Capitals Vigadó, where, beside the premiere of Improvisations Op. 20, he plays 7 preludes by Debussy, then with Zoltán Székely Bloch ’s Suite for Viola and Piano. 21 January - He writes Károly Rezik again, and asks him to postpone the Kolozsvár concert planned for 5 February because he would like to meet Milhaud, Poulenc, and Marya Freund then visiting in Budapest. (The concert would get postponed to 19 February.) 205
