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 )

1926

already informed about the publication - regarding possibilities for publishing, at the same time suggesting cooperation with Oxford University Press. - To Mrs Antal Banke

(Anna

Pataky) in Békéscsaba

he writes that he will be home on 13, 15 and 16 May, she can come see him.

19 May

- His last appearance of the season: he plays pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Couperin, Kodály

and

of his own at Radio Budapest.

22 May

- He travels to Pozsony.

In

the afternoon he takes a long walk with his mother, and spends all his time in her company during the following days as well.

23 May

(Whitsun Sunday) - They have lunch in the so-called “house of buds”.

24 May

- They walk in the mountain park, on the 25th in the forest, then in the afternoon they pay a visit to his mothers lady-friend Margit Cserny, where Bartok even plays the piano.

26 May

- He leaves Pozsony

for

Budapest.

29 May

- He writes Mrs Fischer b. Stefánia

Szalay

that he is expecting her around 15 June.

1 June

- He starts composing a new piece. (Presumably the movement Barcarolla of the series Out of Doors.)

5 June

- He replies to Romanian musicologist Emil Riegler-Dinu in Vienna in a long letter regarding his questions about Romanian folk songs.

15 June

- In response to the advertising of their flat they get calls from viewers, furthermore from two young girls who wish to become his private pupils. He listens to one of them on 16 June, to the other one on the 17th.

17 June

- Music critics Aladár

Tóth and

István

Péterfi visit

him, and ask for an interview for the newly founded Magyar Hírlap

(Hungarian

Journal).

20 June

- Concert organiser Károly

Márffy calls

on him with a concert offer.

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