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 a postcard to conductor Antal Fleischer in Barcelona and a letter to the Sociedad Musical Daniel in Madrid. 16 March - He writes another letter to Universal Edition regarding the translation of the male choirs, while to his mother and aunt he writes about the illness of his son Béla, who contracted the measles. 19 March - His wife is in the Pulmonary Sanatorium of Budakeszi. For this period they sent their son Péter to the Emil Tóths in Szöllős Puszta. Bartok sent 173.30 pengős to Mrs Emil Tóth for Péter s expenses. 20 March - From Budapest he writes Universal Edition and Béla Vikár, then leaves for Barcelona. 22 March - After a complicated journey, in the afternoon he arrives in Marseille where - while waiting for 6 hours - he writes a postcard to his mother and aunt in Pozsony. 23 March - In the morning he arrives in Barcelona. He stays at Hotel Victoria. In the evening orchestral rehearsal of Rhapsody. 24 March - From Barcelona he writes his mother and aunt that he renounced his Madrid appearance due to financial considerations. In the evening, at the Barcelona Theatre Del Liceo he plays Rhapsody at the Hungarian concert of the Orchestra Pau Casals conducted by Antal Fleischer. 25 March - He leaves Barcelona for home on his fortysixth birthday. 28 March - He arrives in Budapest. He visits his wife at the Budakeszi Sanatorium. 29 March - He gives an account to his mother and aunt of the Barcelona concert, of the 1,300 schillings half-year payoff of Universal Edition, and of Mrs Károly Ziegler having given birth to a little son, Károly on 27 March in Szekszárd. 30 March - He is confined to bed with a bad cold. He writes a letter of congratulations to Mrs Károly Ziegler in Szekszárd: “ I was also very very happy with the news. I was thinking of you a lot. ...” 5 April - He writes a postscript to Béla Bartok Jnr s letter to Mrs Emil Tóth about traveling to Pozsony on High Wednesday for a few days’ visit. 263
