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 )

1931

having corrected two more print sheets; he gives further instructions. - To his son Péter

he

writes: Mum left for home today, I am

grieving because I am left on my own, ...”.

9 August

- Letters to his sister and to Universal Edition.

15 August

- He writes his mother: “...I orchestrated Evening in T, Bear Dance, A Bit Tipsy, one dirge, and some other short thing. Well, now this is a small orchestral suite that I assembled for the money, because such a thing - considering that the music is likeable, its not difficult to play and that it’s from a ‘famous composer - will probably be often performed, at the Radio, etc. ...” (Hungarian Pictures). - To Universal Edition he writes about a contract to be concluded with the Schott firm for the Violin Duos.

19 August

- He writes his mother that there will be a general professors’ conference the following day, all the money got spent; it is possible that they can pack up and go home.

20 August

- He accepts the financial compromise suggested at the conference.

21 August

- He writes his mother that he will go home earlier, and on the 23rd informs Universal Edition that he wishes to confer with them in Vienna.

26 August

- Still in Mondsee, he writes Doflein and sends his son Béla belated birthday good wishes, mentioning that in Mondsee he received 500 schillings less from the Americans ‘bn the rocks”. - He takes a coach to Vienna.

27 August

- In Vienna he is attending to official matters, and returns to Budapest that day or the next.

30 August,

1 and 2 September (Irma

Voit ’s 82nd

birthday) - He visits his mother and aunt.

3 September

- He travels to his sisters’ in Szöllős

Puszta for

a short visit. - He writes István

László Németh in

Pozsony

that

he engages in appearances in the new season only between 15 January and 15 March

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