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 Prince and Dance Suite. In Munich The Wooden Prince is still on repertoire, so it is performed again on 7 May and later on 21 June. Bartok got elected member of a Bucharest Music Society. 28 June - Bartok is notified by Secretary-General of the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy), Géza Moravcsik that the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed to him accepting this membership. (This was the official way of acknowledging foreign honours.) 7 July - Bartok writes concert organiser Romulus Orchis in Bucharest that he accepts his concert offer for the autumn, and that the local Music Society wants to organise 12 concerts for him. 12 July - He returns the proofs of part of the orchestral score of Four Slovakian Folk Songs and The Wooden Prince to Universal Edition in Vienna, giving detailed instructions for the continuation. 15 July - He writes a letter to Edgar Varèse in Paris. Márta Ziegler is still helping out with Bartoks works. 18 July - Vacationing in Paks, she sends Bartok the already finished part of the orchestral score (probably The Miraculous Mandarin) that she copied there. 31 July - In Budapest Bartoks younger son Péter is born at the Clinic Tóth. Bartok notifies his mother on a postcard. 20 August - He writes a letter to Viliam Figus-Bystrÿ in Besztercebánya with advice about obtaining phonograph cylinders, and one to Milos Ruppeldt in Pozsony regarding a way to obtain his, Bartoks arrangements of Slovakian folk songs, adding that he is preparing to go to Pozsony soon, they can meet then. 23 August (with a mistaken date of 23 July) - He and his wife send belated birthday wishes to his son Béla in Szöllős Puszta. He writes as a relevant event that he captured a “Praying” Mantis (Mantis religiosa) in the Buda mountains, the kind of which he hasn’t yet seen in Hungary, but he set it free in the park of Szilágyi Dezső Square. 234
