Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1929 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE about him to Frank Whitaker in London. - In the evening he listens to the stage rehearsal of Beethovens Symphony No. 9 with the Philharmonics conducted by Ernő Dohnányi. - His mother asks in a letter to recommend young Lajos Rajter for an audition with Kodály, which happened eventually. 7 May - He writes lawyer Jan Löwenbach in Prague regarding his mother s resettlement, and Universal Edition about G. Verhuyck-Coulons Allegro barbaro recording. 8 May - He visits Etelka Freund and her siblings with his wife. 9 May - Longish discussion with Kodály. 10 May - He informs Universal Edition that he has put ALMECO in charge of handling the mechanical rights, replacing the Berlin firm AMMRE (Anstalt für Mechanisch-Musikalische Rechte) because he had not been satisfied with their management and settling of accounts. At the same time he also returns the corrections of the orchestral scores of String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4. - He writes his mother about their summer plans as yet undefined. 11 May - Letter to Calvocoressi in London regarding the publication of the volume of Kolindas. 14 May - The widowed Mrs Béla Bartok receives her permit of resettlement, and preparations get started for the move. 15 May - Having deliberated 4 unusable librettos, he returns them to Universal Edition. On 25 May and 6 June he writes Universal Edition, on 27 May AMMRE regarding the transference of the mechanical rights. 31 May - Poet Kálmán Harsányi dies young on this day. He was a friend of Bartoks youth and his enthusiastic fan, some of whose poems he put music to at the beginning of the century. 7 June - The widowed Mrs Béla Bartok and Irma Voit settle down in Hungary. Thus an essential change happens in Bartoks life. Their correspondence lessens considerably, but they visit each other 298
