Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1924 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE Music are opened, in the jury of which Bartok is also participating. 29 February - He leaves Zurich for Pozsony. 2 March - He returns home via Párkánynána. 9 March - Piano recital in Sopron, at which, beside Beethovens Sonata in F major Op. 10, he plays pieces by Scarlatti, Brahms, Debussy, and Bartok, mostly those of the 5 February programme. - During these weeks The Wooden Prince is performed in Munich on 20 and 27 February, 4 and 14 March. 16 March - In Budapest the reciter Blanka Péchy gives an evening for the benefit of Adys sepulchre; according to the press of that time “Bartoks masterful piano playing diversified the programme, he played his own pieces and those of Kodály ”. 20 March - Bartok sets out on a concert tour in Transylvania for the fourth time since the end of the war. He is giving concerts in the southern region. 21 March - Piano recital at the Officers’ Casino of Temesvár. Programme consisting of the usual pieces: 3 sonatas by Scarlatti, Nos. 6 to 15 of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Beethovens Sonata Op. 10, Debussy’s Pour le piano, Brahms’ Rhapsody in B minor, Chopin’s Nocturne in C sharp minor, 7 numbers of the series For Children, Bear Dance, Rumanian Folk Dances, Evening in Transylvania, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. He reports to the police. 22 March - Concert in Nagyvárad, afterwards an appearance at the Catholic Circle in the evening. Beside the Debussy, Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin pieces of the previous day’s programme, he plays 5 sonatas by Scarlatti, then of his own compositions 3 Burlesques, 10 numbers of the series For Children, Rumanian Folk Dances, Evening in Transylvania, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. 23 March - He gives a home concert in Lugos in the flat of József Willer, one of the leaders of the Hungarian Party of Romania. 24 March - In Lugos public piano recital with the programme of the 21 232
