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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Around 10 September he writes William Primrose that the sketch of Viola Concerto is ready, and the orchestral score would be completed by the second half of October.

21 September

- He is taken to West Side Hospital of New York because he is increasingly unwell.

26 September

- He passed away in the hospital before 12 o’clock noon. (It was 18 o’clock in the afternoon in Hungary then.)

28 September

- His body was laid out in the Universal Chapel at Lexington Avenue, and he got buried in the presence of a small number of people, according to the ordinance of the Unitarian Church, in grave No. 470 of section Saint Peter of the “Ferncliff” cemetery in Westchester County, State of New York.

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