Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)

Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)

1928

CHRONICLES OF BÉLA

BARTOK'S

LIFE

bigger one is a new string quartet, that gave me quite a lot of work, this is also almost complete”. (Talking about Rhapsody No. 1 and String Quartet No. 4.)

28 August

- He writes his sister in Szöllős

Puszta about

their mothers illness, asking her to travel to Pozsony

to

nurse her as soon as possible.

1 September

- He sends good wishes to Pozsony

for

Irma

Voits 79th

birthday.

5 September

- A concert consisting of pieces by Liszt, Bach, Beethoven, some of which enter his programme for the first time.

11 September

- He reassures his sister: their mother is better, so she can take her time travelling to Pozsony.

- On his postcard to Mrs Károly

Ziegler in Szekszárd

he

expresses his regret that they were unable to visit them on their way home, and writes about their son Bêlas

itinerary Kitzbühel-Salzburg-Pozsony-Budapest.

13 September

- Letter to Universal Edition.

14 September

- He writes his mother and aunt for the first time about a plan to move them from Pozsony

somewhere

closer, maybe to Budapest.

He restarts working at the Academy, attending the entrance exams for the time being.

24 September - He attends a meeting regarding his approaching trip to Prague, then writes his mother that once in Prague he might be able to intervene in the case of their resettlement, by the way on 4 October he will come to Pozsony

for

2 days. He accepted 7 pupils at the Academy, which are not many.

27 September - Letters to ITHMA and to Universal Edition.

2 October - Letter to ITHMA and also to Universal Edition. - The first newspaper reports on Bartok having won the 6,000 dollars award of the Washington “Musical Found Society” with his String Quartet No. 3. Later this got modified to Bartok and Casella having received divided 1st prize.

4 October - He leaves Budapest for Pozsony,

then

on 6 October he proceeds 284