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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1938

Kaposvár to

Budapest) gives his father an account of home events, thus also of the leader of the arrow-cross (Hungarian nazi)

party

Ferenc Szálasi

having

been sentenced to 3 years in prison and of Bálint

Homan having left the government. - These news had a favourable effect on Bartok worrying about increasing German pressure. - He writes his son Péter

about

the weather and of traveling home: We’ve got 6 more days here, not much hope for better weather [even today it’s completely cloudy, inter-valley sausage clouds are forming, soon it will surely rain].... We leave for home on the 18th.”.

14 and

15 July - With the weather improving slightly, they take an excursion to the vicinity of Braunwald.

16 July

- They take a car trip to Glarus

(to

the canton seat). - Bartok writes his mother and aunt the date of their arrival home.

18 July

- He sends a postcard to his sister in Szöllős

Puszta expressing

his worry about their mother. - To Mrs Müller-Widmann

in Sempach

he

writes that he is sorry for not having managed to meet up in Braunwald.

- In the afternoon they leave Braunwald

for

home, Hungary.

19 July

- In Budapest Bartok fills out the entrance declaration to the English copyright society PRS (Performing Right Society). (As regards Hungary, Bartok wanted to remain member of the Hungarian association MARS [Magyar Szövegírók,

Zeneszerzők és Zeneműkiadók Szövetkezete = Co-operative

of Hungarian Librettists, Composers and Music-Publishers] which PRS was opposed to.)

20 July

- He gives a private lesson.

21 July

- He calls Jenő

Deutsch

for the afternoon of the 22th.

That week folk song researcher János

Manga

makes recordings in Budapest with two women from Menyhe (Nyitra county) in Bartok’s presence.

27 July

- Bartok writes Antonia Kossar about the Benelux programme plans for November, which would get realised for this once with a difference of only a day or two. He also mentions his appearance 427