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

audition, and composer Jenő

Takács in

Cinfalva

(Siegendorf,

Burgenland) about his 20 October arrival in Sopron.

16 October

- He is discussing gramophone royalties with Péter

Pál Kelen. His 3 appearances planned for the following days become doubtful due to his joint pains.

20 October

- He makes his appearance at the matinee of Downtown Theatre after all, but because of his ailing he plays only one piece by Marcello, Scarlatti and della Ciaja, respectively. Then Mária

Basilides

sings for the rest of the programme, accompanied by Ottó

Herz.

- He writes a letter to Universal Edition, then in the afternoon travels to Sopron where

on this day he gets elected honorary member of the Ferenc Liszt Music Association of Sopron.

21 October

- In Sopron

he

plays Rhapsody, the Budapest Philharmonics are conducted by Károly

Zwinz.

22 October

- On Ferenc Liszt s birthday he plays Variations Weinen,

Klagen in Sopron.

“

Everything went finely, there was general celebration.. 2 - he writes his mother, also signed by Ernő

Dohnányi, Aladár Tóth and

Ferenc Székelyhidy.

- On this day the “8 órai

újság" (

“8 o’clock News”) wrote that at the concert of the 20th Bartoks heroical self-control made his piano playing shine in its unimpaired entirety.

23 October

- From Sopron

the

whole party returns to Budapest via Győr.

“Walking the streets of Sopron,

I

suddenly saw a golden frame in one of the shop windows, encasing a fraction of my letter written - 25 years ago - to Sopron,

in

which I disclose biographical details related to a concert of mine there at that time ” - writes Bartok to his mother, already from Budapest.

26 October

- He sends the correction of pages 1 to 80 of The Hungarian Folk Song to Oxford University Press in London.

27 October

- Letters to Hubert Foss about The Hungarian Folk Song, and to Universal Edition.

28 October

- Letters to the Columbia Graphophone Company in London 301