Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1923 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE tax; he entrusts Milos Ruppeldt with forwarding the letter. (He gets the permit on 11 October.) - In the evening he goes to the Fischers’ (Sándor Albrechts relatives) for dinner. 14 July - He is walking around Pozsony with his son, and shows him the memories of his youth. 15 July - From Pozsony they travel to Radvány (Zólyom county) via Zólyom, they are guests in the castle of Count Antal báró Radvánszky and his wife (Wanda Gleiman). 16 July - Bartok travels to Rimaszombat for a visit to the Pásztory family. 18 July - Márta Ziegler writes a letter of goodbye to the widowed Mrs Béla Bartok: “I knew that Béla would tell you the matter now. If I look back on my life today, I say blessed be my fate, a thousand times blessed for handing me out a route, that, although being bumpy and stormy, led me high, very high, to Bêlas friendship ”. 22 July - From Rimaszombat Bartok writes a letter to Matica Slovenská in Turócszentmárton concerning the handing over of the Slovakian folk song recordings, that is the phonograph cylinders; at the same time he asks them to write a letter of support to Prague for the sake of restoring his mother’s withdrawn citizenship, with reference to his merits. 23 July - He leaves Rimaszombat for Radvány. 24 July - He informs his 13-year-old son about the divorce, then - as the Radvánszkys also invited Márta Ziegler - father and son travel to Zólyom to meet her, and the three of them return to Radvány. 25 July - Bartok moves out to Királyka (also property of the Radvánszkys), and there he proceeds with the composition of Dance Suite. 28 July - They go on an excursion in the vicinity of Radvány. 2 August - He takes a long walk with his son and members of the Radvánszky family. - During this time Márta Ziegler is still helping her former husband. 3 August - She writes the widowed Mrs Béla Bartok: “I don’t lead a completely idle life, I am copying the orchestral score that Béla is 224
