Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
Economic Crisis (1932–1933)
1932 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE 14 May - He attends the morning reception held in honour of the participants. 15 May - In the morning he plays at Radio Frankfurt, with violinist Licco Amar: “Slow” of Rhapsody No. 2 and the Allegro movement of Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, as soloist: Kolindas, Bear Dance, Evening in Transylvania, With Drums and Pipes, and Preludio-AlVUngherese. 16 May - He returns home to Budapest via Passau. Then there comes another long hiatus in his public appearances due to the ever deteriorating financial situation. 18 May - He gets visited by his mother to whom he shows books received from the League of Nations and an article in Hebrew about him. 22 May - Letter to Universal Edition. 26 May - He watches another performance of Transylvanian Spinning Room with both of his sons and his mother. (The performance was attended only by Mrs Kodály, not by Kodály.) 31 May - Cherries are ripening already on one of the fruit trees in the garden at Csalán Road; he brings his mother 10 pieces of the harvest. 8 June - He goes to see his sister visiting with their mother in Budapest. - He writes Universal Edition. 11 June - He thanks the widowed Mrs Kálmán Harsányi in a letter for having sent him a work left by her late husband. 15 June - He writes Universal Edition concerning the publication of Cantata profana, the Rózsavölgyi and Co. firm concerning Universal, the Hungarian Insurance Company concerning their change of flat, and finally Sándor Albrecht about Matica Slovenská not meeting their obligations, so he wants to dissolve the contract. He asks for Albrechts assistance with the settlement. 20 June - The Rózsavölgyi firm promptly responds: “From now on we will not hand over our publications for distribution to Universal Edition”. 21 June - Bartok replies lawyer Dr. Géza Szarvas, representative of the flat owner at Kavics Street, regarding his numerous - mostly unfounded -342
