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

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

AT THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

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1937

next years festival.

2 December

- The Budapest performance of Bluebeards Castle is also transmitted by the Radio.

6 December

- He informs Antonia Kossar of his Brussels programme.

10 December

- Evening of sonatas performed by Bartok and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky at

the Capitals Vigadó.

Programme:

Beethovens Op. 102 in B flat major, Brahms’ Sonata in E minor, the violoncello and piano version of Bartoks Rhapsody No. 1, Debussy’s Sonata, and Bach’s Suite for Violoncello Solo in C major.

14 December

- Bartok plays Mozart’s Trio in E major and Mendelssohn’s Trio Op. 49 in D minor with Imre Waldbauer

and

Jenő

Kerpely

at the Music Institute of Higher Education (Music Academy).

There is still continuous chaos regarding concerts in Western Europe.

14 ,

17 and 27 December - Bartok tries to clarify new details with Antonia Kossar: the Amsterdam programme got turned upside down and it was still not established who his partners would be.

23 December

- At Radio Budapest he plays from Microcosmos, for a fee of 300 pengős.

24 December

- Christmas visit at his mother and aunt’s.

27 December

- He writes Paul Sacher on a postcard: “My wife’s name should appear on the programme in this form: ‘Frau DITTA Bartók

’.”.

28 December

- He takes a technical test at the Academy of Sciences for his next day’s lecture.

29 December

- In the organisation of the Hungarian Ethnographic Society, lecture at the Academy of Sciences entitled Turkish Folk Music of the Adana Region.

30 December

- Pesti

Hírlap (Pest

News) publishes an article about Bartok that ends like this: “We can declare with pride that we, this handful of people, torn but rich in talents, got Béla

Bartok,

the greatest and most original composer of the 20th century. We have to believe in Bartok 415