Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1930 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE Dance, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. 12 February - He leaves Aachen for London via Ostende. 14 February - In Queens Hall of London he plays Piano Concerto No. 1 conducted by Henry J. Wood. The work was appraised in the printed programme by M. D. Calvocoressi. 21 February - Again in Budapest, he visits his mother. 24 February - He writes Universal Edition about his plan of putting music to Jenő Mohácsi ’ s script, which didn’t come true in the end. 25 February - He writes Edward Clark in London about the sequence and participants of his concerts planned for November. The here suggested participation of Jelly Arányi or Zoltán Székely respectively didn’t come true. 2 March - He gets a grave rash which is treated first with compresses of lead acetate. On the 9th he is still confined to bed and takes veronal. 13 March - When he is visited by his mother, he leaves his sick-bed and plays a little piano. 14 March - He writes Mrs Keppich b. Irma Molnár in Kolozsvár that in April - from the 6th - he is at her disposition for private lessons. 15 March - In Szekszárd Mrs Károly Ziegler gave birth to a daughter called Márta. 16 March - Bartok participates in an Ady evening held at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy). 17March - At Radio Budapest he plays pieces by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Kodály ’s Dances of Marosszék. (Radio Budapest broadcasts the same programme on 14 April, presumably from a recording.) 19 March - He asks his mother to draff 3 letters in German: to the August Förster piano factory, to the Wolff and Sachs concert bureau in Berlin and to Paul Bechert in Vienna (whom he intends to meet in April). 20 March - He gives a multilingual letter of recommendation to his pupil Lajos Heimlich (Hernádi) aiming at appearances abroad. 22 March - He writes Universal Edition, then on the 25th AKM about 306
