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 The Hungarian Radio is unwilling to give the fee asked on 30 August. They offer first 90 pengős, later 100 pengős. 9 September - Bartok calls off the performance. (On 2 December he does give the lecture after all for the required fee.) - He is rehearsing Liszts Danse Macabre with Dohnányi s conducting. 10 September - At the Hungarian Radio he plays Danse Macabre in the course of “Concert Europe” transmitted by numerous foreign radio stations, organised on occasion of the Liszt Year. He receives a fee of 400 pengős for the participation. 12 September - He leaves for Vienna. 13 September - In the morning he rehearses, then in the evening he performs Rhapsody conducted by Oswald Kabasta at the Austrian Radio. 14 September - He returns home to Budapest. 20 September - He calls the attention of the Mayor of Szeged, József Pálfy to choir conductor of Kecskemét, Zoltán Vásárhelyi as the most suitable young musician for the recently vacated post of City Music School Director. (His recommendation was disregarded.) - For this same day the imperial German colony of Budapest had been planning a concert with the participation of the Magdeburg Madrigal Choir, also advertising Bartoks appearance in the programme, however, it was - due precisely to the organisers’ national affiliation - presumably cancelled. 25 September - The English Radio (BBC) broadcasts an on-site transmission from Ernő Dohnányis Budapest flat about Hungarian music life. It features Mária Basilides and Bartok who gives a longish interview and plays Liszt s Concerto pathétique with Ernő Dohnányi. 8 October - Letter sent to Universal Edition. 10 October - The Wooden Prince is performed - for the first time in South America - in Buenos Aires. 13 October - Bartok pays his first visit to the family of MÁV Supreme Counsellor István Simay, the future father-in-law of his son Béla. 380
