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 ) 1927 Chopin, Debussy, and of his own. - He writes a postcard to concert organiser András Vitéz in Kassa. 1927 3 January - From Genoa he writes his mother and aunt in Pozsony: “ ...I had to travel here now. ... I play almost the same programme as in Pozsony. Although Genoa is an interesting, beautifully situated old town, I cannot see much of it...” In the evening he gives a piano recital at the National Theatre. Programme: pieces by Michelangelo Rossi, Azzolino Bernardino della Ciaja, Benedetto Marcello, Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in E flat major Op. 31 by Beethoven, one nocturne by Chopin, and from his own works Suite, Allegro barbaro, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, Preludio-AU’Ungherese, Burlesque No. 1, Rumanian Dance No. 1, and part of the Kolindas. He learns only in the evening that he is supposed to perform in Venice the next day. 4 January - Venice. Piano recital at the Conservatoire Benedetto Marcello, with the previous days programme. 6 January - He returns to Budapest. He notifies his mother and aunt that he cannot travel to Pozsony right now because of the Pozsony impresario; maybe at the beginning of February (but not even this came true). 8 January - He leaves Budapest for Szekszárd on a visit to his first wife (Márta Ziegler) and her husband (Károly Ziegler, engineer of the Szekszárd-Bâta Flood Rescue Society). 9 January - He goes on an excursion with Mr and Mrs Ziegler to the Benedek Gorge, where they view gipsy cave dwellings cut into the mountain-side. 10 January - On a postcard sent together with the Zieglers he writes the 259
