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 )

1923

orchestrating now”. (Indicating Dance Suite.)

9 August - Béla

Bartok

Jnr travels home with his mother. Bartok returns to Királyka

for

four more days.

13 August - From Radvány

he

writes a longish letter to his mother and aunt. He tries to calm down his mother who is desperate about the divorce, and encourages her saying that the situation will get better “It will be much worse only for Márta;

this

is the only thing that saddens me”. He tells her that the orchestral score of Dance Suite is almost complete, and that he arranged for the royalties due from Universal Edition to be sent to Pozsony

because

of the uncertain financial situation in Hungary.

20 August

- He leaves Radvány

for

Budapest.

23 August

- He sends his belated birthday wishes to his son staying in Szöllős Puszta.

28 August

- He marries Edith Pásztory

at

the registry office of District 2, Budapest.

31 August

- He registers his wife with the police to the flat of 4 Szilágyi

Dezső Square.

6 September

- He visits his former wife in the flat of Hold Street.

10 September

- He tells his mother about the turns of his life, his salary of 600,000 crowns per month, his concert plans for the autumn (most of which then came true).

11 September

- Entrance exams are starting at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy), which Bartok is quite averse to.

At the end of September Bartoks son got ill, Bartok visited him four times between 22 and 28 September.

Bartok got invited by the International Society of New Music (Société Internationale

de

la Musique Contemporaine) to

take part in the the jury’s work at the 1924 Zurich Music Festival.

2 October - He accepts the invitation in a letter written to Edward J. Dent in London.

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