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

(Dorothy Moulton) at Cumberland Terrace, where he also plays the piano. - He gives an interview for the Pall Mall Gazette.

20 March

- He gives her mother an account of the events so far, and calculates that he will have a net income of about 50 pounds, but he is even happier about the papers mentioning his appearances as great events.

21 March

- Bartoks wife moves to the flat at Szilágyi

Dezső Square

with her little son.

22 March

- They register their new address. (Bartoks registration is in his own handwriting, evidently post dated for the time of his absence.) - Bartok writes a letter to Géza

Révész; he

would like to give concerts also in Amsterdam and makes his suggestion through Géza

Révész, resident of that city. It is received favourably, but it didn’t come true after all.

24 March

- His public concert at the Aeolian Hall of London. He plays Mozarts Sonata for Violin and Piano in D major and his own Sonata for Violin and Piano with Jelly Arányi;

he

accompanies singer Grace Crawford who performs four Hungarian folk songs with German lyrics; his solo programme is: Suite Op. 14, one Burlesque, one Rumanian Dance, Improvisations, Kodály

’

s Lento

(Op. 3) and Epitaph. - In the evening he attends Guglielmo Marconi’s soirée.

26 March

- He writes a letter to the conductor Henry Wood, to Béla

Bartok Jnr and to Károly

Rezik.

30 March

- Composer’s evening at Rushworth Hall of Liverpool. Programme: Hungarian Folk Dances, Evening in Transylvania, Bear Dance, Allegro barbaro,

Sonatina,

2 Dirges, Suite Op. 14, Rumanian Dance No. 1, Variations On Hungarian Folk Songs (probably Ballad from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs), Rumanian Folk Dances, Elegy No. 1, 3 Burlesques.

31 March

- In London, at Sydney Place he plays sonatas with Jelly Arányi:

E major by Bach and A major (Op. 47) by Beethoven, then of his 209