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 23 November - At the Opera House he also listens to the performance of The Wooden Prince-Suite; persuaded by his mother he comes on stage three times. He is not totally satisfied with the premiere, but finds it better than the stage rehearsal. 25 November - He has dinner at his mother and aunts, on the 27th he brings them the usual monthly 120 pengős and an extra 80 pengős as Christmas present. 29 November - Jack Hylton and his band perform at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy). Bartok is interested in jazz music, now he seizes the opportunity to listen to them. 8 December - He wants to listen to the radio performance of the Violin Duos by Imre Waldbauer and János Temesváry at his mother s, but the program is dragging on so much that he cant sit it out. 9 December - He writes the Mainz firm Schott about the proof sheets of those numbers of the Violin Duos that will be published by them. 12 December - He gets his passport, valid for Europe. - He answers by letter the appeal of conductor Antal Fleischers wife to support her husbands appearance in Germany: “To my greatest regret there is nothing I can do, I don’t have that kind of relationship with those German musicians”. 16 December - Matild Bartok, last sister of Béla Bartok Snr dies in Ürmöshát of Hajdú county. 17December - Bartok leaves for a one-day negotiation in Vienna, but writes the Schott firm from Budapest that he received the proofs belonging to the 2nd booklet of Dofleins Violin School and would return them shortly, furthermore he will have an appearance in Frankfurt on 31 January when he could be paid his fee. When in Vienna, he writes a longish letter to Zoltán Székely, in which he mentions among other things “... that the transcription for violin and piano of my Sonatina for Piano has just been published; furthermore, that I had also written 44 little duos for 2 violins at the 332
