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

numbers of 8 Hungarian Folk Songs); finally he plays the piano part of Rhapsody, conducted by Károly

Rezik.

20 February

- From Kolozsvár

he

travels to Nagyszeben,

where

at the Unikum-Kammarspielhaus

he plays the solo piano pieces of the previous day, furthermore two sonatas for violoncello and piano with Károly Rezik,

Beethovens C major Op. 102 and Brahms’ F

major

Op. 99.

22 February

- Concert in Szászsebes,

with

the same programme as in Nagyszeben.

23 February

- He travels to Marosvásárhely

(via

Tövis)

where

he stays at Dr. Károly

Zieglers

at 46 Geese Dániel

Street.

On 24 February he gives a concert at the Marosvásárhely

Palace

of Culture. Programme: 3 sonatas by Scarlatti, 5 preludes by Debussy, and his own solo pieces of the Kolozsvár

programme,

with the exception of Dirge, furthermore 3 Sekler folk songs with the participation of Mrs Bükkösy

b.

Ágnes

Dudutz.

25 February

- He leaves Marosvásárhely

for

Kolozsvár.

26 February

- Public stage rehearsal, then performance in the evening at the Protestant Theology of Kolozsvár.

Programme:

2 sonatas by Scarlatti, 8 preludes by Debussy, Bagatell No. 5, 7 numbers from the series For Children, Evening in Transylvania, Sonatina, Burlesques Nos. 2 and 3, and Rumanian Dance No. 1, furthermore four Sekler folk songs from 8 Hungarian Folk Songs with the participation of Béla Farkas.

Bartok writes a postcard to a former pupil of his Mrs Kádár b.

Erzsébet

Hevesi in

Máramarossziget.

- On this day Bartoks mother writes from Pozsony

to

Budapest that the Czecho-Slovakian authorities don’t acknowledge her citizenship and her pension got withdrawn.

27 February

- Bartok lets János

Bu§i|ia

know by greeting card that he returns home.

The “temporary” flat at Gyopár

Street

is rather inconvenient for 207