Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Great Concert Tours on Two Continents (1922–1931)
1931 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE Basilides, Ferenc Székelyhidy, Lajos Laurisin, and Oszkár Kálmán are singing, Aladár Zalánfy plays the organ, the cembalo part is played on the piano by György Kosa. Bartok likes the performance very much. 19 May - He goes to the Ministry of the Interior concerning Irma Voits citizenship. - He writes a letter to AMMRE. 20 May - He makes suggestions to Kolozsvár musicologist István Lakatos who wants to play a piece by Bartok with his chamber music partners. - He informs Octavian Beu of his newly published writings. 21 May - He writes Universal Edition about his fresh grievances in connection with AMMRE. 22 May - He gives Constantin Briloiu the Budapest address of György Alexits concerning Romanian translations, and expresses his hope anew that cooperation between the English and the Romanians will be possible regarding the publication of the kolindas. During the month of May he does his best to make progress in all the still pending folk song publications before going on vacation. 30 May - He presses Matica Slovenská for the proof sheets, Hubert J. Foss for the second proofs and list of mistakes for the volume of kolindas. 31 May - In a letter to Foss he makes fresh suggestions for chaptering the publication, also writing these to Briloiu. He would like direct contact among the people preparing the English edition and the Romanian edition. - He makes a draft for a letter to Universal Edition concerning gramophone recordings. - Finally he also visits his mother. 8 June - He agrees with the Rózsavölgyi and Co. firm to make two orchestral transcriptions from some of his earlier piano pieces. (Then he accomplished both already during the summer, entitled Transylvanian Dances and Hungarian Pictures.) 11 June - He suggests Briloiu to confer directly with Oxford University Press concerning the kolindas. 12 June - He leaves Budapest for Germany. 13 June - He composes a letter to Schott publishers in Mainz, concerning 324
