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 ) 1929 20 March - 2 more rehearsals, then composers evening at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy). The Waldbauer String Quartet play String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4; year of origin of this latter is printed 1918 in the programme instead of 1928. Bartok performs the cello and piano version of Rhapsody No. 1 with Jenő Kerpely for the first time in Budapest, then as soloist he plays 3 numbers of the series Out of Doors, finally Mária Basilides sings the series Village Scenes accompanied by Bartok. 21 March - Mrs Kodály, who was unable to attend the concert due to her illness, says on the phone: Kodály returned home in a state of total bliss; he said that String Quartet No. 4 was a wonderful opus, and the Waldbauers had played it so miraculously as they might never ever do again. - There are many difficulties with the resettlement of Bartoks mother; he writes to Pozsony about the steps he has taken regarding the re-emerged pension arrangement. 23 March - He writes ITHMA, on the 24th Universal Edition, while sending the programme for his Vienna concert to István László Németh. 25 March - He spends his 48th birthday “nice and calm” at home. 27 March - He informs his mother that after the Vienna concert he will come to spend a day or two with them, and expresses his joy about lawyer Löwenbachs notification, according to which her case was supposedly settled. 31 March - In his letter to Universal Edition he calls the publishers attention to Pozsony composer D. Lauko. 3 April - In the afternoon he leaves for Kecskemét. Programme of his concert at the Town Music School: Marcellos Sonata in B flat major, Scarlattis Sonata in A major, della Ciajas Canzone in C major, Beethovens Sonata Op. 81, Kodály s Transylvanian Lament and Piano Music, Nos. 2,4 and 7 from Volume III of Liszts series Années de Pelerinage, and of his own compositions some pieces of 15 Peasant Songs, Burlesque No. 2, Dirge No. 1, Rumanian Folk Dances, and Allegro barbaro. 295
