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

29 August - He obtains an Austrian visa.

1 September

- He writes Romulus Orchis in Bucharest that he accepted the suggested concert dates.

2 September

- From Budapest he travels to Pozsony

via

Szob.

3 September

- He reports to the police, in the afternoon he takes an excursion with his mother to the mountain Zergehegy.

6 September

- He leaves Pozsony

for

Vienna, then, following negotiations with his publishers, he returns home to Budapest the very same day.

The details of another trip to Romania - despite him travelling by means of the concert bureau Fodor - are still arranged by Bartok.

11 September

- He sends informative data to Romulus Orchis, also asking to secure accommodation for him; on the 17th he also sends the orchestral score and parts of Rhapsody, and on the 18th notifies Orchis about this, also asking him to procure proper rehearsals. On the 25th he informs him of his 8 October arrival in Arad, and is asking for further dates. On 3 October he obtains his Romanian visa. On 4 October he is complaining in his letter to Orchis about the total lack of organisation regarding further dates.

8 October

- He travels to Arad via Lökösháza.

9 October

- At the Culture Palace his concert programme is: Liszts Weinen, Klagen Variations,

Beethovens Sonata in E flat major Op. 31, Bartoks Old Dance Tunes (from 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs), Bear Dance, Sonatina, Rumanian Dance No. 1, Evening in Transylvania and Rumanian Folk Dances, furthermore Chopins Ballad in G

minor,

and Liszts La Campanella. - He reports to the police, then writes urgently to János

Bu§i|ia

in Belényes

that

he will have a concert also in Nagyvárad and

would like to meet up.

10 October

- In Temesvár

- after reporting to the police here, too - he gives a concert at the Officers’ Casino, made up by the Liszt, Beethoven and Chopin pieces of the previous day; of his own works he plays Sonatina, Burlesque No. 1, Bear Dance, and 10 pieces from the series

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