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 ) 1924 March Temesvár concert, adding Rumanian Dance No. 2. 25 March - On his 43rd birthday he notifies the Lugos police of his departure, and travels home via Békéscsaba. 27 March - At the 36th regular annual general meeting of the Hungarian Ethnographic Society he gets elected member of the capitals board for the years 1924 to 1926. 29 March - He travels (via Salgótarján) to Rimaszombat (Gömör county), where at his piano recital held in Hotel Tátra he plays, beside Beethovens Sonata in F major Op. 10, pieces by Scarlatti, Debussy, Brahms, and Bartok. 30 March - He leaves Rimaszombat for home. 1 April - He participates in Helge Lindberg s Budapest song recital playing Scarlatti sonatas. In April he is preparing to go on a short vacation in Italy with his wife. 11 April - He obtains Italian visas, on the 12th Yugoslavian ones, and he buys the train tickets. 14 April - They travel from Budapest (via Kotor-Postumia) to Venice. 21 April - From Venice they go on an excursion to Padua. 22 April - They write a picture postcard to Bartoks mother in Pozsony. 23 April - They leave for home. 24 April - They arrive (via Kotor) in Budapest. 28 April - From Budapest Bartok writes to AKM (Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger) in Vienna. 10 May - He writes D. Kiriac. In Prague festivities of the Society for Propagating Contemporary Music were held between 31 May and 2 June:, Bartok was also preparing to go, but there is no data about him attending. 5 June - He writes Budapest Opera House that the orchestral score of The Miraculous Mandarin is progressing, and he can hand it in in two instalments, around 15 July and 15 August. 16 June - He writes Universal Edition regarding the proofs of The Wooden 233
