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 In his letter started on 13 July and completed on the 17th he gives an account of the Geneva and Mondsee days to his mother and aunt. - In the meantime on the 16th he writes Doflein, on the 17th ITHMA. 21 July - He gives a concert at the hall of the Mondsee castle, with a programme of Michelangelo Rossis Toccata in C major, Benedetto Marcellos Sonata in B flat major, and della Ciaja’s Canzone, of his own works Kolindas, Burlesque No. 2, With Drums and Pipes, The Nights Music, Suite Op. 14, and Rumanian Dance No. 1. After days of very bad weather, finally on the 23rd it cleared up. 24 July - He goes on an excursion with his wife and son by a dinkey line, ferry and cog-wheel railway to the Schafberg via St. Wolfgang, of which on 25 July he gives an account to his mother and aunt. 27 July - His son returns home. The weather turns bad again. 28 July - Letters to Matica Slovenská, to ITHMA and to Universal Edition. 29 July - He writes his mother and aunt: he is sorry that his son has left already. 31 July - Sightseeing in Salzburg with his wife. 1 August - He writes his mother and aunt, on the 2nd the Rózsavölgyi and Co. firm, and on the 4th Pál Arma in Dessau about a possible concert there. (Then this didn’t come true.) 7 August - His wife also returns home; he accompanies her to Salzburg, then goes to see “one thing and another” in town, like the Mozart House among other things. - He writes his son from Mondsee: “What a pity that you couldn’t stay here longer”. - In the evening he participates at the Roth String Quartet’s concert performing Mozart’s Piano Trio in E major in the company of Ferenc Roth and van Doorn. This is his last public appearance this year because of the gradually deteriorating economic situation. 8 August - He writes: “it’s been raining since the afternoon, good working weather”. And he uses it well; he writes ITHMA, the Schott firm in Mainz, finally Ján Valastan-Dolinskÿ in Turócszentmárton about 328
