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

World War II. Second and Third American Tour (1939–1945)

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1939

the end he didn’t redact it for pressing.)

4 June

- He invites Aladár Tóth over

for 8 June. - He asks Antonia Kossar a new question regarding the ominous Scheveningen concert.

5 June

- He writes Andor Schulhof.

8 June

- He gets visited by Aladár Tóth and

Bence Szabolcsi.

11 June

- He hands over his collection of 447 phonograph cylinders complete with cover plates to the Society of Friends of the Hungarian National Museum.

13 June

- He writes Director-General Count János

Zichy that

his reasons for doing this are to use the selling price for covering the expenses of the publication of his Romanian and Slovakian folk song collection. Part of the cylinders being faulty, Bartok deduced these and asked 12 pengős each

for only 420 cylinders, 5,040 pengős

in

all. - He writes a letter to Boosey & Hawkes.

14 June

- He requests in a registered letter that the Budapest Opera House respond at last the sequence of his letters. - He asks for information regarding the materials of the planned concert from N.

V.

Maatschappij Zeebord of Scheveningen.

16 June

- He lets Antonia Kossar know that he finally got her reply and would leave Budapest on the 26th.

18 June

- He replies to Paul Sachers wife’s invitation to their summer resort in Saanen: he is already preparing to go elsewhere in July with his family, but in August he would come with pleasure to rest and compose.

19 June

- He writes Mrs Müller-Widmann

about his vacation itinerary. - He settles his bills with the Koncert

concert

bureau (his share being 146.20 pengős)

and

with piano leaser Albert Kohn (15 pengős).

20 June

- He writes his son Béla

(at

this time living already in Budapest at 2 Kenese Street) that he would like to meet him before he leaves.

22 June

- He buys his train ticket for the route Budapest-Passau-Cologne- DenHague-Basel-Vienna.

23 June

- In the afternoon he meets his son Béla

at

the Academy of

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