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 )

1930

10 or

11 January - Bartok arrives in Budapest.

14 January

- Letter to Universal Edition.

16 January

- He reaches an agreement with the Rózsavölgyi

and

Co. firm about the publication of Piano Music for Beginners.

20 January

- Letter to Universal Edition.

21 January

- In Kassa (Kosice) he gives a piano recital at the Schalk House. Programme: Purcells Prelude in G major

and Suite in C major, Marcellos Sonata in B flat major, della Ciaja’s Canzone in C major, Beethovens Sonata in G

major

Op. 31, Chopins Scherzo in B flat minor, Bartoks Suite, 2 Rondos, Kodály

’

s Transylvanian

Lament and 3 pieces from Op. 3.

22 January

- He gives a piano recital at the Casino of Eperjes,

on

the 23rd another one at the Ungvár

Casino

with the programme of 21 January.

24 January

- He arrives home in Budapest.

25 January

- He gives ethnomusicologist Pál

Péter Domokos recom

mending lines, stating that he considers the publication of Domokos

’ Csángó folk

song collection important.

30 January - A

Bartók-Kodály-Debussy evening

of songs with Mária

Basilides’ participation at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy). Their programme: 8 songs from Kodály

’s series

Singing, 5 songs from Belated Melodies, Debussy’s 3 French chansons and Ballad of the Women of Paris, then the premiere of Bartok’s Twenty Hungarian Folk Songs.

2 February

- Letter to AKM, on the 8th to Universal Edition regarding Rhapsodies No. 1 and No. 2 for Violin and Piano, before he leaves Budapest.

Afterwards it’s time for another tour abroad.

11 February

- In Aachen he gives a piano recital. Programme: pieces by Purcell, Scarlatti, Marcello and della Ciaja,

Kodály’s Dances

of Marosszék still

in manuscript, and of his own works 9 Small Piano Pieces, Elegy No. 2, 3 Rondos, Sonatina, Evening in Transylvania, Bear

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