Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)
At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)
1935 CHRONICLES OF BÉLA BARTOK'S LIFE real work but by the multitude of marginal work, correspondence, checking of deadlines, and the like. 17 July - Béla Bartok Jnr, having been dragging on without a job for more than two years, learns about a small number of jobs opening up at the Hungarian State Railways, so he asks his father by telegram to interrupt his vacation and try to help him acquire a job using his personal connections (Irén Senn, teaching at the Music Academy was the sister of Ottó Senn, President of MÁV). (During the great unemployment all through the world this was the only way for people with degrees to get employed even in Hungary.) The Bartoks end their vacation at once. 20 July - All three of them return to Budapest. 22 July - Bartok writes the Austrian Radio on the matter of his September appearance. 26 July - He sends a letter of recommendation to his former pupil Storm Bull in Norway, and writes Zoltán Székely a letter about the possibilities of their planned joint concerts in England. 31 July - His son Béla gets the job he applied for: he enters the service of the Hungarian State Railways. 1 August - From Budapest Bartok brings his son Péter to his sisters’ in Szöllős Puszta where on the 2nd or 3rd Bartok gets tetanus vaccination owing to a minor injury. 5 August - Again in Budapest he sends fresh kolinda prospectuses to Endre Gertler in Brussels and promises to check the metronome numbers of String Quartet No. 2. (He did this eventually only in January.) - He informs Director of the National Széchényi Library, Imre Lukinich regarding the planned French publication of his work Our Folk Music and Folk Music of the Neighbouring Peoples. 6 August - He writes Universal Edition about changes in Rhapsody No. 2. 10 August - He writes József Szigeti, who would have liked to include a Bartok piece at their planned Budapest evening of sonatas, that he 378
