Bartók Béla, ifj.: Chronicles of Béla Bartók's Life (Budapest, 2021)

At The Academy of Sciences. Great Compositions (1934–1938)

1937

CHRONICLES OF BÉLA

BARTOK'S

LIFE

22 October - On Liszts 126th birthday his programme at the festive concert of the Radio is: Sunt lacrymae rerum, Eclogue, and Weinen,

Klagen Variations.

26 October

- He informs Antonia Kossar of programme drafts for Den Hague and Rotterdam. - He writes a letter to Paul Sacher regarding the possible date of his Basel lecture in January.

27 October

- In Budapest, at the concert of the Capitals Committee on People’s Cultures he plays Rhapsody conducted by Antal Fleischer.

6 November

- He goes to Kaposvár

to

see his son Béla

and

family.

8 November

- He returns to Budapest. - In Paris Music is performed, conducted by Paul Sacher.

9 November

- He calls Jenő

Deutsch

for 11 November.

10 November

- Letter to Antonia Kossar about coordinating the dates of the concert tour Basel-Den Hague-London-Brussels.

11 November

- He writes Paul Sacher about technical matters concerning the Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussions, and writes Mrs Müller- Widmann about

his Swiss program with his thanks for her invitation, telling her about how he is at that very moment studying Piano 1 of the first movement of his new piece (Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussions) which he found very difficult.

13 November

- In Budapest, at the charity concert of Magyar Múzsa

(Hungarian Muse) he plays numbers 6 to 15 of 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs.

24 November

- He writes Antonia Kossar that he doesn’t want to play on a Bechstein piano

because the firm broke relations with him on 15 June.

25 November

- He writes a letter in which he consults Paul Sacher in Basel.

27 November - Letter to AKM.

30 November - He writes to László

Rásonyi (in

Ankara) who hasn’t replied to his letter for 6 months; and anyway he considers things in Turkey having become dormant. - Upon request of Baden-Baden Music Director-General Lessing, he recommends pieces and performers for

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