Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1922 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE the Bartoks, they would like to move to an independent place, but it was insoluble so far. The river Danube had become international after World War I, and an International Danube Committee had been established with headquarters in Budapest. The representative for Hungary, Corvette Captain Ede Kankovszky, brother-in-law of Bartok’s wife, has been living in his wife’s old flat at 4 Szilágyi Dezső Square with his family. Now around this time the Danube Committee gets transferred to Pozsony; the Bartoks take over their emptied flat. 4 March - Already from Budapest, Bartok writes about this to Ödön Hendel in Újpest. - To Jon Bírlea in Máramarossziget he writes: there is no way anymore to publish their Máramaros collection together, because he reached an agreement with a German publisher regarding his own collection. 8 March - In the morning he travels to Vienna, the first stop of his longish western trip. 9 March - He travels to London via Ostende. 10 March - He arrives in London. 14 March - Concert in London at the Hungarian Embassy at Hyde Park Terrace with the participation of the Arányi sisters, Bartok playing 6 small compositions of his own beside Violin Sonata No. 1 with Jelly Arányi. 15 March - He travels from London to Aberystwyth (Cardigan) of Wales. 16 March - Concert in Aberystwyth, where he plays Beethoven’s Trio in D major with violinist Hubert Davies and cellist Arthur Williams, and as soloist 8 of his own small piano pieces. - He writes a postcard to his son Béla in Budapest and to his sister at Szöllős Puszta, a longish letter to his mother and aunt in Pozsony, in which he lets them know that his trip will be favourable financially. 17 or 18 March - Concert in a London private home. 19 March - He attends a dinner in the flat of singer Mrs Robert Mayer 208
