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 Also on the 8th they write a picture postcard to his mother at Szöllős Puszta, indicating in the picture the peak that Bartok has climbed (2,830 metres). 9 August - Back in Budapest he begins to organise his autumnal trips. He writes Ernő Balogh (about being in Budapest from 20 August until the end of November), Beatrice Harrison in Oxted (Surrey), then on 12 August Eric Chisholm in Glasgow, on the 20th Universal Edition, on 2 September ITHMA. Around 5 September his sister has a surgery in Budapest, he pays her several visits in the hospital. 11 September - Letter to ITHMA, and one to Edward Clark in London about the programme plans of his concerts planned for January. 13 September - Radio concert in Budapest. Programme: Beethovens Sonata in G major Op. 79, Chopins Bolero and Tarantella, Ravels Oiseaux tristes, Purcells Prelude, Air, Gavotte and Hornpipe, Bach’s English Suite in A minor, and a sonata by Scarlatti. 16 September - Suite No. 1 is being performed in Budapest by the orchestra of the Philharmonic Society with Ernő Dohnányi conducting. 17 and 19 September - Letters to Universal Edition. He asks them to confer with Menyhért Lengyel about changing the text of The Miraculous Mandarin, because the piece is planned to be performed in Budapest, but objections have been raised against the text for reasons of morality. 26 , 28 September, 3, 14, 18, 20, 27 and 29 October - Letters to Universal Edition. 14 October - Letter to Verhuyck-Coulon in Brussels. - According to Dezső Szabos “Book of Sales” Bartok pays a total of 200 pengős buying the writer s manuscript of Against Fate, thereby easing his poor financial situation. (When leaving in 1940, he entrusted the manuscript to his son Béla, who in 1993 would send it with his godson for publication.) 15 October - He writes Mrs Fischer b. Stefánia Szalay regarding her 300
