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 ) 1925 modified later considerably, as usual). He lets her know with pleasure that The Wooden Prince was performed 7 times in Munich, 3 times in Lübeck, and its performance is being planned even in other towns. - To Michael Calvocoressi in London he writes in a long, gloomy letter: “This year and a quarter is gone without me having written even one note of new music. With great exertion and difficulties I finally completed the orchestral score of my ‘Miraculous Mandarin during the summer and autumn; the piano arrangement for 4 hands just got published”. Having learned that Calvocoressi began translating A magyar népdal (The Hungarian Folk Song) to English, he also gives advice regarding this. 25 February - In Szeged a concert planned for this day got postponed to 2 April with reference to Bartoks illness. 1 March - At an afternoon performance of artist Artur Fehér at the Capitals Vigadó, Bartok plays Nos. 6 to 15 of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs and Debussy’s Sarabande. 2 March - He is already in Brno making an appearance at the Moravian Composers Club. His programme is the same as the 10 January one in Prague, the singer is Mária Hlouska. Bartok is satisfied with the concert. 3 March - At 7 a.m. he arrives in Pozsony from Brno, he visits his mother and aunt, then proceeds to Budapest. A new country enters the list of his concerts, Italy. 6 March - He buys his Jugoslavian and Italian train tickets. 8 March - He travels to Milan via Kotor. 10 March - Piano recital in Milan. Programme: Beethovens Sonata in E flat major Op. 31, Debussy’s Pour le piano, Kodály’s Epitaph, Bartok’s Dirge No. 1, Sonatina, Rumanian Folk Dances, Evening in Transylvania, Bear Dance, Burlesque No. 1, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. At noon he is Hungarian Consul Lajos Villányi ’s lunch guest, in the evening he attends the Hungarian colony’s post-concert gala dinner. 239
